Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > It does not successfully build using GCC on my Solaris 10 system, and
> > not even with the workaround described in the INSTALL file.
>
> Did you report it?

Yes.

> I've been building xz on sparc Solaris 10 with gcc since
> back when the program was called lzma.

Maybe your GCC is different than mine.  Mine uses the Solaris linker 
from /usr/ccs/bin/ld.  This is for x86 rather than SPARC.

> > > From what I have heard, even hundreds of MB of RAM may not be
> > sufficient.
>
> There are options to tune how much memory xz uses.
> Perhaps the people you heard from didn't know about those.
> xz has evolved in the last couple of years, so even if your
> anecdote represented a bug, it may well be fixed by now.

I tried to test how much peak memory 'xz' uses to decompress the 
autoconf tarball but was (apparently) defeated by the strange way that 
'xz' is linked.  I will try again with a different tool this weekend.

Bob
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