[openbeos] Re: Building Haiku

Mathew Schofield <mr.skoe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7/22/05, bpmagic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <bpmagic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > No. CPUs were meant to be used. :) Anyway, while I'm on vacation, 
> > I'm
> > finding out that my travel box (500Mhz Celeron, 96 MB RAM) does 
> > just
> > fine with compiling Haiku -- you just can't build the entire tree 
> > at
> > once because of how jam utilizes a lot of RAM.
>  I checked and found out that my laptop only has 64MB of ram :(. I 
> did 
> however still try and compile Haiku on BeOS Dev 1.1. I ran configure 
> with 
> the target of r5, ran jam, and it came up with out of memory so i 
> followed 
> the jamfiles, jam-ing(?) whatever they would have in their order.
>  However now my problem is makehdimage says that there isn't enough 
> ram. Is 
> this because makehdimage runs jam? I think i've compiled 
> everything...Does 
> anyone know how to get around this? Or have i just done something 
> wrong?

If you really built everything already, you should just disable/remove 
the jam call in makehdimage - this should give you the ability to run 
it.

Bye,
   Axel.

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