Re: make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop.

[Fabio Alemagna]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% Fabio Alemagna <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   fa> The first issue, is that even if it was cross compiling, it tried
>   fa> to use the host's 'ar' command. I solved that by invoking
>   fa> m68k-amigaos-ar by hand and letting make run again, however that
>   fa> should be fixed at the source.
>
> If anything needs to be fixed here, it would be automake or possibly
> autoconf.  However, my understanding of autoconf is that it's up to the
> developer to specify the cross tools.  How did it find the cross
> compiler?  Didn't you have to set CC when you ran "configure"?  You
> would also have to specify AR as well.

I specified --host=m68k-amigaos, and configure added that prefix to all
the tool's names, except, apparently, ar. Or perhaps ar is used by hand in
that makefile, I haven't checked.

Fabio Alemagna