2018-07-09 2:27 GMT+02:00 Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com>: > There is good news bad news on the GCC repository conversion. > > The good news is that I have solved the only known remaining technical > problem in reposurgeon blocking the conversion. I've fixed the bug > that prevented execute permissions from being carried by branch > copies.
Great to hear that there is progress on that front! > The bad news is that my last test run overran the memnory capacity of > the 64GB Great Beast. I shall have to find some way of reducing the > working set, as 128GB DD4 memory is hideously expensive. Or maybe you could use a machine from the GCC compile farm? According to https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm, there are three machines with at least 128GB available (gcc111, gcc112, gcc119). Cheers, Janus
