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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
Cc: Nuno Teixeira <nunotex@pt-quorum.com>,
	Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: openoffice stack and datasize kernel problems
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:
:
:Hi Matt,
:
:>     I'm still playing with this.  Actually, I'm still playing with this
:>     for the first time!  I started building the port on my workstation
:>     yesterday afternoon and, well, it's *still* building 24 hours later!
:>     Holy cow!
:
:Hehe.
:
:It takes 6 hours here with a fast Raid here, 512M Ram and
:a 2Ghz P IV :-)
:
:Martin
:
:PS: What bulding system you have ?

    I wanted to run it on my workstation so I made the mistake of building
    it on my workstation, A 650MHz Celeron with 256M of memory.  It's
    entirely cpu bound.  Someone pass the dunce hat... I should have
    moved the build to a real box the moment I noticed that the distribution
    file it was downloading was 116MB :-)

    I *think* it's almost gotten to the point where the link issues
    crop up.  I already have some approaches in mind:

	* Ld has a no-keep-memory option which may reduce VM use.  I
	  am going to try that first.

	* Reordering object modules and -l libraries may reduce 
	  stacking issues.

    And if all else fails:

	* Pre-linking (ld -r) objects in smaller sets then doing a
	  final link will greatly reduce the final link stage footprint
	  by pre-resolving static symbol targets.

    But first I have to get the build to the point where ld fails.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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