[webkit-gtk] Ogg media support questions / compiling with debug enabled

[Daniel Drake]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Evan Martin <evan at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>> gold didn't work here - it ran out of memory too. It was more verbose
>> in its error message, telling me that a mmap() call failed to allocate
>> ~800mb. I don't know why it failed as I had plenty of free RAM (inside
>> my 6GB total), 16GB swap totally unused, and overcommit enabled. gold
>> doesn't seem to have an equivalent to --reduce-memory-overheads
>> --no-keep-memory
>
> If your gold is a 32-bit binary, it likely couldn't find 800mb of
> address space.  (Run "file /path/to/ld" to see the bitness of it.)

Good point, I'm running a 32 bit install.

Thanks
Daniel