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Re: Recurring calls eat up memory
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: Recurring calls eat up memory |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:42:29 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Hello Andres,
thanks for the report.
* Andres Chavarria wrote on Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 04:28:09PM CET:
>
> I installed yesterday OpenSuSE 11.1 and tried to use KDevelop (3.5.3
> openSuSE) to create and compile a simple project. When KDevelop calls
> libtool to link the program, the computer begins to slow down due to
> massive memory consumption until it does not react anymore.
Ouch.
> I tracked down the problem to the script "libtool" found in the
> projects "debug" or "optimized" directories, which I guess is produced
> by libtool. It seems that the script calls itself recurringly and
> produces more and more processes.
Weird. This is the first time we hear about this.
> There seems to be a problem with case sensitivity in the script with
> the "echo" program definition. Changing the script solved the problem:
>
> instead of defining the "echo" as follows:
>
> # An echo program that protects backslashes.
> ECHO="printf %s\\n"
>
> I used:
>
> # An echo program that protects backslashes.
>
> echo="printf %s\\n"
That's pretty weird. Libtool 2.2.x should not use $echo anywhere.
Can you post the output of
./libtool --config
grep '\$echo' ./libtool
for the two libtool scripts that you found?
Thanks,
Ralf