[QtonPi] Bakeqtpi.bash script

[Chris Story]

my ubuntu is 32 bit btw..


On Oct 3, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Kieran Evans wrote:

> I have VMware fusion installed now, so I'll try moving my environment to a VM. That'll also give me a chance to test out on other OSs (currently, it's only been tested on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit).
> 
> I had been doing all my development on a physical Ubuntu install on my pc which has 8gig ram. I'll shift that to my MacBook which only has 4 ( and thus, even less for the Vm so I can recreate the problem).
> 
> /Kieran
> 
> On 3 Oct 2012, at 17:16, Chris Story <ke6rwj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Yes i can confirm this same thing.. it fails every time.. also while doing the install, i have increased the ram on the VM to ~7GB, and it still fails. same error...
>> 
>> as a test i ran the script in one terminal, while in another i ran "free -m -s5" to show avail mem, when it fails mem is at 200k.  GCC seems to be a greedy pig...  I even tried to run it without X running...
>> 
>> the solution mentioned in the post below did not work for me..
>> 
>> brand new VM, nope...
>> 
>> at this time i HAVE NOT been successful at running the script on this env.
>> 
>> my current path is i have deleted all the ~/opt directory in my profile and trying to run again, (there is no clean option in the script)
>> 
>> ive had to dust off an unused ex-windows system to keep playing with the pi, while i try to solve this.
>> 
>> Chris.
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 3, 2012, at 11:06 AM, Harri Pasanen wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10/03/2012 03:14 PM, Tobias Kempkensteffen wrote:
>>>> - Script caused "out of memory" using Ubuntu in VmWare Fusion.
>>>>   Solution:http://wiki.vpslink.com/Prevent:_Compiling_Yields_%27Cannot_allocate_memory%27    (Thanks Chris!)
>>>>   gcc tries to use all RAM of the host machine, no matter what the max. RAM for the VM is set to.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Are you sure about this?  I'm not familiar with VMware Fusion, but for 
>>> instance in VirtualBox you can give the amount of RAM available for the 
>>> guest, and the guest does not know how much memory the host has.
>>> 
>>> The vpslink like scenario can happen if something like openvz is used: 
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system-level_virtualization.
>>> 
>>> If somebody has the time to setup a QtonPi development environment as a 
>>> virtualbox image, that would great.
>>> 
>>> /Harri
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