[pylucene-dev] Fatal error in gc Too many root sets -- need dat special GCJ build fo WINDOWS!!

[Andi Vajda]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, John Kleven wrote:

> I'm having a heck of a time compiling this for
> windows.  Do the linux packages also suffer from the
> "too many root sets" error?

I've never seen it on Linux. It looks like the ubuntu binaries I built with 
gcj 3.4.6 (which I also built for Ubuntu 6.06) were not compiled with 
LARGE_CONFIG.

Andi..

>
> It appears that the only pylucene binary that wouldn't
> have this problem is the OS X version because you
> patched GCJ before building?
>
> Thx again-
> John
>
>
> --- Andi Vajda <vajda at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, John Kleven wrote:
>>
>>> Fellow pylucene friends --
>>>
>>> I'm getting this godforsaken error msg in a popup
>>> window while doing some heavy duty indexing on
>> winXP.
>>>
>>> "Fatal error in gc"
>>> "Too many root sets"
>>>
>>> And I want to die.
>>>
>>> So after reading that GCJ on top of mingw is not
>> so
>>> easy to build for win32 to here:
>>>
>>
> http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/pylucene-dev/2005-September/000712.html
>>>
>>
> http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/pylucene-dev/2005-September/000713.html
>>>
>>> And seeing on the pylucene homepage that OS X
>> Pylucene
>>> binaries get a special GCJ build (LARGE_CONFIG)
>> ...
>>> i'm wondering if anybody has got a beautiful
>> beautiful
>>> PyLucene windows build w/ the LARGE_CONFIG patch
>> to
>>> GCJ???  Need some LARGE CONFIG!!
>>
>> Here is a gcj 3.4.6 build built with LARGE_CONFIG
>> that you can use to build a
>> LARGE_CONFIG PyLucene:
>>
> http://downloads.osafoundation.org/compilers/windows/mingw-5.0-3.4.6.tar.bz2
>>
>>> Is there any truth to this post:
>>>
>>
> http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/pylucene-dev/2005-February/000542.html
>>
>> No, these root sets are a bug of libgcj which
>> insists on scanning the static
>> variables of *all* shared libraries in the process,
>> not just the one using it.
>> If you lots of shared libraries in your process,
>> it's pretty easy to hit this.
>>
>> This has been identified as a bug by the gcj
>> developers and is either fixed or
>> in the process of being fixed on the latest gcj
>> 4.2.x. Don't ask when there is
>> going to be a viable gcj 4.2.x for windows, that
>> seems very far off since
>> no-one is actively working on it.
>>
>> Andi..
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