cvs commit: ports/lang/gcc43 pkg-descr

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:22:07PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >>| +(Building the Java frontend and the associated libgcj library will
> >>| +consume more than 512MB of main memory.  Set WITHOUT_JAVA=yes in 
> >>| +the environment when building this port to avoid that.)
> > Maybe also describe how to achieve this?  i.e. you need to increase
> > the datasize limit.  It would also be good to check this before
> > starting the build and abort if it is going to fail later on.
> 
> Did you have something like the patch below in mind?  (Not committed
> yet.)

Yes, thanks.

> BTW, I cannot believe that even with FreeBSD 6.2 we still need to hack 
> /boot/loader.conf and reboot to support more than 512MB per process. Is
> there really no better way?  I failed to find suitable documentation on 
> FreeBSD.org so far.

Might be time to increase it, or (if for some reason 512MB is still
considered the most suitable default) at least increase the kernel
limit and leave the login.conf default at 512MB so it can be increased
at runtime.

Kris
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