Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 09:09:14 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: gt2832b AT prism DOT gatech DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: error compiling POV-Ray 3.0 w/ djgpp v2
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On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, GTEL Cluster wrote:

> pmode.a: error reading symbols: memory exhausted
> 
> pmode.a being one of four .a files linked (along with a LOT of .o 
> files)
> 
> the total size of ALL .o and .a files to be linked was only about 1 MB 
> - I have 16MB (I had NO memory-eaters at compile-time so I had 15MB 
> available EMS/XMS, about 580k conventional), and nearly 20MB hard-drive 
> space free
> 
> If anyone has any idea what could cause this problem and how to correct 
> it I'd be greatly appreciative.

That's due to a bug in ld.exe which comes with DJGPP.  There was a 
discussion on this issue some time ago, and a solution was supplied 
(AFAIK).  I don't remember the particulars, but you can see all the 
discussion by pointing your Web browser to this URL:

   http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/

Search for POVRAY (or POV-RAY) and "exhausted" and you will get all those 
messages.