Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/04/12/16:14:19
Charles Brasted (cbrasted AT physics DOT adelaide DOT edu DOT au) wrote:
: Hi all,
: I have been coding away happily for the past fortnight with v2, gcc and as work
: fine, however I have recently downloaded xlib, jlib and allegro and when the
: maker gets to ar libfile.a lots.o of.o stuff.o it seems to hang. The
: machine needs a soft boot. Obviously this sucks as I can't use libx,libj or
: liballegro.... any ideas? I read about the machine hanging with stubify
: (in the FAQ), well there is no virus on my machine, or so my checker tells
: me.
ar is a real memory hog. You may not be hanging but just doing a lot of
swapping. Of course, ar may be exhausting memory in a particularly
nasting way. I suggest using several libraries instead of one big one.
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