[Xastir] Cygwin

[Curt Mills]

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Henk de Groot wrote:

> I get the same GCC error as you have. Linking takes a while, eating a lot
> of RAM for this task, but it does produce a correctly linked Xastir. I
> think you have to be patient, if your swap file grows then you may not have
> enough memory and that will slow down this step a lot more. Eventually it
> should succeed however. I have 512 MB on this machine with an Athlon XP3000+.

On one Win2k machine I tried Cygwin/Xastir on, it had 128MB physical
RAM.  With the normal things that were running on the machine,
including virus scanning and such, it had very little left.  The
final link step of the Xastir compile would try over and over to
complete, but would run out of RAM.  That step kept trying for a day
and never completed.

The fix was to install more RAM in that system.  The system had
recently been upgraded from WinNT4 to Win2k, and the 128MB just
wasn't enough for it anymore.  Not with all of the other things that
were required to be running in that environment anyway.

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