MICO: An Open Source CORBA Implementation

A lot of traffic on our mailing list (see Section 1.3) is concernedwith problems people encounter while installing and using MICO.Therefore we have collected frequently asked questions (also knownas FAQs) and their answers. If you encounter a problem, first checkthe FAQs to see if there is a solution. If your problem is not listed,please send your inquiry to the mailing list. Include a detaileddescription of your problem along with
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| Q: | During compilation, gcc 2.7.2.x aborts with an "internal compilererror." What is going wrong? | |
| A: | Some Linux distributions (notably, Suse Linux 5 and Red-Hat) shipped broken gcc binaries. You have to recompile gcc2.7.2.x, or better yet, install egcs 1.x or gcc 2.8.x. | |
| Q: | Compilation aborts with a "virtual memory exhausted" error.What can I do? | |
| A: | Add more swap space. Under Linux, you can simply createa swap file: sudd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swapfile bs=1024\ count=64000mkswap /tmp/swapfileswapon /tmp/swapfile There are similar ways for other Unix flavors. Ask your sysadmin. If for some reason you cannot add more swap space,try turning off optimization by rerunning configure: ./configure --disable-optimize | |
| Q: | I use Cygnus CDK. gcc aborts with a "virtual memory exhausted"error. How can this be... |