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From: KendallB AT scitechsoft DOT com (Kendall Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Re : compiling povray 3.0 with djgpp
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 17:50:13 GMT
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Francois Charton <deef AT pobox DOT oleane DOT com> wrote:

>When trying to compile povray 3.0 with djgpp 2.0, djgpp dies while 
>linking pmode.a saying : "memory exhausted".

This is a bug in the LD 2.5.2 linker that is provided with DJGPP V2. I
thought Chris Young was going to put a note in the POVRay 3.0 code saying
that you need the older LD 2.4 linker to get anything to link with our
PMODE libraries.

Charles Sandmann sent me a copy of an older version of the linker that can
be used to solve this problem. You can log onto our ftp site and download
this linker:

 ftp.scitechsoft.com: /devel/ld24.zip

>As regards the infamous "gnu-ld" bug (which kills gcc when linking either 
>large libraries or libraries which include large static arrays), this 
>error occurs on a rather small module (around 1800 bytes long), and 
>cannot be cured by splitting the library into several smaller ones : if 
>instead of linking _pmlite.o, you build a library pmlite.a containing 
>ONLY _pmlite.o, ld still chokes...

This is because _PMLITE.O was created from TASM'ed assembler source passed
through the EMXAOUT converter utility. There is a bug in LD that many
people know about, and now that I have isolated a small case of the problem
I have emailed DJ about it and hope that he (or someone else) can find a
fix.

I would fix it myself, but I am a newbie when it comes to building and
debugging any of the DJGPP components.

Regards,


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