[erlang-questions] Problems cross compiling: eheap_alloc: Cannot reallocate 3480006320 bytes of memory

[Winston Smith]

This is *exactly* what I did, and with what's in r13b04_dev I got it
working on the avr32-linux platform (NGW100) pretty easily.  I'm just
in the process of preparing a patch that includes a xcomp/.conf file
for avr32-linux for submission to erlang-patches.

The new system works really well, the only thing I had to do was set
the environment variable ac_cv_sizeof_off_t to 4 as configure can't
figure it out and picks 8 (incorrectly).

I noticed in the xcomp/README that you suggest updating otp_build to
include new settings such as this, so I'm adding new settings for
ac_cv_sizeof_off_t and also ac_cv_sizeof_size_t so they can more
easily be customized in the .conf file.

Many thanks and a great job on significantly improving the cross
compilation support for Erlang!


Winston.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Rickard Green <rickard@REDACTED> wrote:
> Current cross compiling support has lots of issues. I'd recommend that
> you wait for the R13B04 release if you want to cross compile
> Erlang/OTP.
>
> The upcoming R13B04 release will have much better support for cross
> compiling. I've just committed a bunch of cross fixes in the r13b04
> development branch which are available at
> <http://github.com/erlang/otp> (ccase/r13b04_dev branch). If you want
> to try it out, have a look at the xcomp/README
> <http://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/ccase/r13b04_dev/xcomp/README>
> since lots of things have changed regarding cross compiling since
> R13B03.
>
> If you get it working with r13b04_dev, the configure results from
> r13b04_dev may give you a hint about what is wrong with the R13B03
> configuration. However, I'd still recommend that you wait for the
> R13B04 release.
>
> Regards,
> Rickard Green, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB.
>
> 2010/1/29 Winston Smith <smith.winston.101@REDACTED>:
>> Trying to run a cross compiled version of R13B03 on an AVR32-Linux
>> system (NGW100/buildroot-2.3.0) I get the following:
>>
>> /home/avr32 # erl
>>
>> Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
>> eheap_alloc: Cannot reallocate 3480006320 bytes of memory (of type "heap").
>> Aborted
>>
>>
>> I've had this working before (I think with R13B01) but I've since
>> upgraded my build host from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10.  I actually had this
>> same issue originally, and I somehow solved it, but I can't for the
>> life of me remember what I did.  I am setting up an xconf file with
>> the proper values for size_t, off_t, big endian etc; in fact I based
>> my build script on Brian Zhou's script for building Erlang on NSLU2
>> Linux:
>>
>> http://svn.nslu2-linux.org/svnroot/optware/trunk/make/erlang.mk
>>
>> Any thoughts on where to start debugging/diagnosing this?  (the
>> embedded gdb doesn't work)  Is the erl_crash.dump useful (and how do I
>> interpret it!)?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance!
>>
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