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Date:      Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:26:39 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jean-Sebastien Roy <js@jeannot.org>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Jean-Sebastien Roy <js@jeannot.org>, parv_fm@emailgroups.net
Subject:   ports/46257: suggest workaround for potential problem in VisualWorks
Message-ID:  <200212141426.gBEEQdN1075242@durandal.root>

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>Number:         46257
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       suggest workaround for potential problem in VisualWorks
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          maintainer-update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 14 06:30:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jean-Sebastien Roy
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386
>Organization:
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>Environment:
System: FreeBSD durandal.root 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Sat Nov 16 10:54:48 CET 2002 js@durandal.root:/mnt/backup/obj/opt/src/sys/JS i386


	
>Description:
Suggest a workaround for a potential problem in VisualWorks (out of memory error upon launch).
See : http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/VisualWorks/VisualWorks-Linux+crashes+on+startup
Suggested by: parv_fm@emailgroups.net
>How-To-Repeat:
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>Fix:

diff -ruN visualworks/Makefile visualworks.new/Makefile
--- visualworks/Makefile        Thu Jun 27 13:21:38 2002
+++ visualworks.new/Makefile    Sat Dec 14 15:20:44 2002
@@ -48,5 +48,8 @@
        @echo ${CHMOD} u+w ~/visualnc.im
        @echo Then run it using:
        @echo visual ~/visualnc.im
+       @echo If this produces an out of memory error message try:
+       @echo visual -h 1m ~/visualnc.im
+       @echo and increase the '1m' value to '2m', ..., until the error goes away.
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
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