Re: [Visualpython-users] building visual-3.0 on Debian sarge (testing)

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 12:44 +0000, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> I'm using 'visual-3.0-20040722.tar.gz'.
> 
> The config.log and the resulting top-level Makefile claim the visual
> version is 2.9.7, I think because the 'configure' script has these
> lines:
> 
>   PACKAGE_VERSION='2.9.7'
>   PACKAGE_STRING='Visual Python 2.9.7'
> 
> Should the version become 3.0.0?

> A few updates for the 'INSTALL.txt':
> 
These things have been fixed in later releases, as well as a few other
bugs.  3.0.3 was released to the Sourceforge page yesterday.

> I couldn't compile visual on my 96MB Pentium (586) laptop -- the g++
> compile of 'cvisualmodule.cpp' consumed over 150MB of virtual memory
> (c++ is an absurd language)!  The cc1plus process got about 2% of the
> CPU time while swapping like mad.  I then compiled everything on a
> nearby workstation with more memory, but is there any way to reduce
> the memory consumption?
> 
> -Sanjoy

There is, but only at the cost of even longer total compile times.  I
have targeted 256MB of ram as the minimum for building Visual; the
runtime requirement is much lower.

If a packaging expert provided us with an up to date debian/ directory I
would be more than happy to provide a prebuilt .deb for download.

-Jonathan