[pylucene-dev] pylucene and 2gb limit of files

[Andi Vajda]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Yura Smolsky wrote:

> The PyLucene (2.0.0-1) that I used I was only able to get to compile
> with gcc 3.4.6. I tried numerous times to get it to compile with gcc
> 4.x.x with no luck.
>
> It seems that there is a gcc 2gb limit size issue with gcj in all 3.x.x
> versions and was not fixed until gcc 4.x.
>
> here is a reference
> http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/pylucene-dev/2006-March/000933.html
>
> My point is, i dont see how to get PyLucene 2.0.0.-1 and a later 4.x
> version of gcc on a debian or fedora box. I attempted to get this to
> compile for two weeks at the beginning of this month and had no luck.

Yes, this is a known problem.

I've been able to use gcj 4.1.0 on gentoo linux with a patch. I suspect it 
would work just as well on any Linux such as Debian or Ubuntu.

I applied the patch as described in this message:
     http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-03/msg00190.html

It seems, though, that this patch was superceded by the patch in bug 13212:
     http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13212
but I haven't tried it yet.


If this doesn't solve the gcj 4.x on non Red Hat Linux problem you then have 
two options:

   1. dig deeper into finding why gcj 4.x doesn't work on non Red Hat Linux
      and get help from java at gcc.gnu.org (this is how I got the first patch
      mentioned above)

or

   2. implement an FSDirectory in python. For an example, see the
      Test_PythonDirectory.py unit tests. I don't expect python to have the
      same 2gb file size limit.

Andi..