[Rd] "Out of memory" while building R with perl 5.8.2 (PR#6596)

[Simon Urbanek]

On Feb 17, 2004, at 8:32 PM, vangyzen at stat.duke.edu wrote:

> After updating perl from 5.6.1 to 5.8.2, R no longer builds.
>
> Also note that the build continued even after the failure.  Is that a 
> bug or a
> feature?

I recall that the doc-generating perl scripts can use substantial 
amount of memory (easily 500MB on my box, for example), so how much 
memory do you have? Also 5.8 may have bigger overhead than 5.6 
resulting in the use of more memory ... Provided you have less than 
512MB, adding VM or preferably real memory should help ;)

This doesn't directly affect the functionality of R except for the help 
files that were not built, afaik.

Simon

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