[Bf-taskforce25] RNA compile troubles

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi,

This is on my todo list, postponed it because I had trouble getting this
to work with Makefiles .. but seems I'll have to do it anyway :).

Brecht.

On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 15:36 +0200, Nathan Letwory wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Our new RNA system is great for automation, but also, the way it is
> currently implemented it generates a HUGE rna.c, as of this writing I
> look at a 47031 line C file in 1645KB. While this is nice on machines
> with loads of RAM, it is already a problem on low-end machines.
> Compiling on linux with 777MB or less will just fail. For one, there
> will first be a huge amount of swapping (esp with 0.5GB), and at some
> point the GCC compiler will die because of an internal error. On the
> box I tested with I have a swap of 700MB.
> 
> There have been reports by others with similar low-end (or even
> lower-end) system that compiling rna.c will just fail at some point.
> 
> I think it would be good to think of ways to have rna.c chopped up
> into bits so that the compiling still can be managed successfully.
> 
> /Nathan
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