Re: [Doxygen-users] Doxygen 1.8.6 unusable to build our doc due to tag_files generated

[Sebastien L. (GeometryFactory) <slo...@gm...>]

On 02/28/2014 10:33 PM, Dimitri van Heesch wrote:
> Hi Sebastien,
>
Hi Dimitri,

> On 28 Feb 2014, at 10:59 , Sebastien Loriot <slo...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Our library documentation is decomposed into packages and each package
>> documentation has its own doxygen compilation unit. The links between
>> the packages are handled thanks to the tag-files.
>> The build is OK when using doxygen 1.8.4.
>>
>> When we tried to switch to 1.8.6 we noticed that the second build
>> (the first build generates the tag-files) allocates huge amounts of
>> memory making the computer swapping and unusable.
>> If I use doxygen 1.8.4 for the second build (i.e. using tag-files from
>> doxygen 1.8.6), the behavior is the same.
>>
>> I tried to make a small reproducible test case without success.
>> One of our developer suspects this commit 31198c21.
>>
>> Is it a known issue?
>> If this can help, I can find out what in the diff of the tag-files
>> cause the issue. What I quickly notice in the diff are:
>> -change in anchor hash
>> -extra <type>@</type> in enums
>> -more members and class are exported
>
>
> It is not a known issue, and I would like to understand better what is causing this.
> Some things to get clear first:
> - are you using the latest from GitHub or the standard 1.8.6 release?
> - is doxygen eating all memory and hanging indefinitely/crashing when out of memory, or
>    just using more memory but finally finishing just fine?
> - if you generate the tag files with version 1.8.4, does the second run then work with 1.8.6?
>
I just tried with the latest git version and it seems you already have 
fixed the issue. I should have tried it first, sorry for the noise.


Best regards,

Sebastien.

> Regards,
>    Dimitri
>