Re: Linux install troubles

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Doug McIlroy <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fedora Linux, I fetched nhc98-1.18.tar.gz (Linux executable).
> 
> Got some relatively innocuous diagnostics from configure and make
> install, but one stood out:
> 
> ./configure: line 594: src/runtime/nhc98heap.c: No such file or
> directory

In the binary tarball, the directory src/runtime does not exist, so
writing a file into it fails.  However, line 594 of the configure script
is protected by a test on the existence of directory src/, so I'm a
little unsure why it even got there.

> Bulling through anyway, I did an installation. and compiled a hello
> world program. The result appears to be related to the configure
> trouble:

It is not related, no.

> OS allocated a heap in high memory (>0x80000000)
>     which breaks this program's run-time system.
>   hpStart=0xb7d96008, hpEnd=0xb7e0b308

This is a known bug, triggered by more recent versions of Linux.  I
attach a source patch which is claimed to work around the problem
(tested on a Fedora system).  It isn't a full fix, but should avoid
high-memory allocation in many circumstances.

Regards,
    Malcolm

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