compilation with --enable-maxpage=256*1024

Daniel Duparc wrote:

> Le Fri, 02 Nov 2001 22:31:50 +0300
> "Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <vvzhy@mail.ru> Ecrivait :
>
> >
> > I can't reproduce your result. I made bare
> >   configure; make
> > and then the same with
> > --enable-maxpage=64*1024, 128*1024, 256*1024.
> > Each time (room) reports right number of
> > maximum pages. Try rebuild from scratch
> > from freshly unpacked sources. It seems that
> > maxpage limit in GCL is defined in several files
> > and maybe you have some piece of previous
> > configuration?
> >
>
> Now, after a good lot of experimentation
> and also after lots of grep(ing) on the o/ and h/
> directories, I am near sure that the
> 128MB==32*1024 pages is system dependent.
>
> I compiled gcl-2.4.0 also with the same
> --enable-maxpages and got the same results
> for (room)
>
> By the way, are you sure that the problems
> with your new Linux system is not about
> memory limits. In my opinion, when compiling
> the lisp(s) gcc reads and _uses_ some system dependant
> constants for C-stack, C-heap and so on.
> May be they are different in the old systems.
>

It might be. These constants are set up by configure
but I have not tried to play with them yet.

>
> All the results above are on Mandrake 7.1.
> I have also a Mandrake 8.0. I'll try soon
> to install gcl-2.3.8 and gcl-2.4.0, in order
> to compare.
>

Please tell me how you'll succeed in compiling gcl
on Mandrake 8.0. Which version of glibc do you have
in Mandrake 8.0?

>
> Best regards.
> --
> Daniel Duparc <daniel.duparc@free.fr>
> 29 av. de la Commune de Paris
> 94400 Vitry sur Seine (France)

Best wishes,

Vadim



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