2018-02-16 11:37 GMT+01:00 Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com>: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 09:21:56AM +0100, Cesare Falco wrote: > > I'm packaging latest MAME 0.194 and it builds fine on my PPA. > > Unfortunately, link fails for i386 due to virtual machine memory issues: > > > > /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Memory exhausted > [...] > > Does anyone know whether virtual machines for official Ubuntu releases > have > > more resources, specifically more memory? > > PPA builds and Ubuntu builds use 100% identical virtual machines. > > Anyway, it's not that the virtual *machine* is out of memory; it's that > any single 32-bit process can only address a certain amount of that > memory. As far as I'm aware, there's no option but to continue trying > to persuade the linker to take less memory. > > Mame 0.195 has been released in the meantime. I experimented lots of tweaking and they all led me nowhere. :-(
The resulting executable is *big* indeed, and this is the definitive issue. :-/ I'm asking everyone for advice: assuming that no i386 build seems possible any more, should I: - stop maintaing Mame - remove i386 from the supported archs - ... (any suggestion is welcome here!) Thank you all in advance, have a nice day! Cesare
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