Error linking i386 build on Launchpad

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:46:24AM +0100, Cesare Falco wrote:
> I'm not able to build the current release of Mame on Launchpad due to
> memory issues:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Memory exhausted
> 
> see full build log here:
> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/232540518/buildlog_ubuntu-wily-i386.mame_0.169-0ubuntu1~ppa5~wily1_BUILDING.txt.gz
> 
> This only happens on i386, amd64 builds fine.
> 
> I've been searching around, but the only solution seems to give more memory
> to the virtual machine. I've also asked for help on Launchpad itself, but
> no answer so far:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/280517
> 
> I know the resulting binary *is* big, but there are other big project out
> there, I guess someone else may have been stumbled upon the same issue.
> 
> Did anyone find any workaround? Is there any way to tell Launchpad I need a
> VM with more memory? Or perhaps I can force the build on a specific machine
> which has more memory?

No, all the VMs are identically-configured.

There are various linker options which can help reduce memory taken
while linking, e.g. -Wl,--no-keep-memory, -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads,
or -Wl,--hash-size=NUMBER.  I can't quite tell what you're doing right
now because your build hides the exact command lines in use (please
reconsider that), but have you looked into those?

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]