Re: [Rosegarden-user] current rosegarden on 2002 iBook (Debian) issues

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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:50:04 -0400
> From: "Tom Breton (Tehom)" <te...@pa...>
> Subject: Re: [Rosegarden-user] current rosegarden on 2002 iBook
> 	(Debian) issues
> To: "Insidious Blank" <ins...@gm...>
> Cc: rosegarden-user <ros...@li...>
> Message-ID: <301...@ma...>
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> > I have renovated a 2002 ibook to run Debian and thought of trying the
> > crazy
> > idea of compiling rosegarden 13.04 on it. I installed the dependencies,
> > got
> > the code, ran  the bootstrap.sh ./configure and all went well until the
> > build process. I get:
> >
> > g++: Internal error: Killed (progam cc1plus)
> > Please submit a full bug report
> > make: ***[data/data.o] Error 1
> >
> > Is it even possible to get 13.04 to run on PowerPC, or should I give up
> > early? This is just a crazy project for me.
> 
> A compiler isn't supposed to crash on any input, no matter how crazy and
> buggy the input is.  So that's probably indicating that g++ encountering
> something severe, like running out of memory.
> 
> I know nothing about ibooks, but Rg does require a lot of memory to
> compile.  I had problems compiling in 1 Gb, until I upgraded.
> 
> 	Tom Breton (Tehom)

I installed on an Asus eepc with about 2gb ram and it limps 
miserably and freezes up, I took it off. It flies on my 
Asus g73 with 8gb as well as on anything higher *BUT* I have 
seen it throw fits about being "out of resources" even on 
a core-8 w. 16gb.