RE: [Axiom-developer] problems compiling wh-sandbox 503

[Bill Page]

On April 12, 2007 8:11 AM Martin Rubey wrote:
> ... 
> I meanwhile managed to build gcl from build-improvements (by 
> installing binutils-dev, and m4), and now wh-sandbox compiles
> *nearly*.  Now I get these rather "random" failures, where
> some of the algebra fails to compile.  I believe that the
> first error message was some "memory may be damaged" stuff,
> while compiling ALGEBRA.
> 
> Didn't Bill Page say that one has to tweak some setting in
> gcl?
> 

On one system (axiom-developer.org) which is configured with a
variant of RedHat 9 as a shared virtual server - don't know
many more details than that - I have found that is necessary
to change the GCLOPTS so that --max-page is a little less than
256*1024 (I use 192*1024 on axiom-developer.org). If this doesn't
work, then I suggest to try configure with this number a little
larger - maybe 320*1024. In general GCL seems to depend very
strongly on the detailed memory management features of those
operating systems on which it runs. This and the specific code
relocation method is the what changes most from machine to
machine.

Regards,
Bill Page.