[Qt-interest] [Mingw-w64-public] "Memory exhausted" ld error when building Qt 4.8.0-rc1 with mingw-w64 4.7.0

[Daniel Johnson]

> (One note:  I wasn't watching memory usage while QtGui4d.dll was
> being linked, but when the non-debug version, QtGui4.dll, was being
> linked, memory usage (for all processes in the system, not just ld)
> started at about 1 GB and grew more or less linearly to about 2.5 to
> 3 GB.  QtGui4.dll is about 13 MB in size.)

When I tried to build Qt a few months ago it wouldn't ever finish when
I left it overnight, and the part that it failed on was linking. It
was maxing out on disk IO the whole time. Perhaps something is being
handled badly that it needs to have such fast access to work properly.