Re: persistent bootstrap failure: Memory exhausted--use C-x s ...

[Jim Meyering]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 12:30:35 +0200
>>
>>   No MH variant found on the system
>>   Wrote /home/j/w/co/emacs/lisp/mh-e/mh-xface.elc
>>   Compiling /home/j/w/co/emacs/lisp/language/hanja-util.el
>>
>>   In toplevel form:
>>   ../../../../home/j/w/co/emacs/lisp/language/hanja-util.el:6437:6:Error: 
>> Memory exhausted--use C-x s then exit and restart Emacs
>>   make[2]: *** [language/hanja-util.elc] Error 1
>>   make[2]: Leaving directory `/t/jt-FqYKau/emacs/lisp'
>>   make[1]: *** [compile-main] Error 2
>>   make[1]: Leaving directory `/t/jt-FqYKau/emacs/lisp'
>>   make: *** [lisp] Error 2
>>
>> I can't be the only one configuring to an empty (new prefix)
>> and running "make bootstrap", so I suppose it's something
>> in my set-up.  Maybe no one else is doing that with F13...
>
> I have just bootstrapped the current trunk on
>
>   Linux fencepost 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 13 00:12:41 UTC 2010 
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> without any trouble at all.
>
>> Both srcdir and non-srcdir builds fail,
>> with and without this PATH-limiting export:
>
> With the same error message and while compiling the same file?
>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> Can you verify that Emacs indeed uses gobs of memory when it
> bootstraps?
>
> Does F13 have some features that could limit memory of Emacs?

Thanks to you and Chad for the confirmation
that this is something specific to my setup.
I should be able to investigate tomorrow.