Re: [Gcl-devel] Building GCL from CVS on Ubuntu 12.04

[Raymond Toy]

>>>>> "Camm" == Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:

    Camm> Greetings, and thanks!  Here is the version from experimental, which
    Camm> (hopefully) will shortly be cvs head:

    Camm>    heap_ceiling=0x`/bin/cat /proc/self/maps | egrep 
"/lib/([[^/]]*/)?ld"
    Camm>    | cut -f1 -d- | head -1`

    Camm> This will vary slightly from run to run.  We just use a truncated
    Camm> (floor) value as ceiling to the growth of the heap.  So exact
    Camm> reproducibility is not a problem.

I tried to get gcl to build on Solaris sparc, but gave up at this
point.  (It used to be the only system where I could somewhat reliably
build gcl, but now I can't build it anywhere, including linux.)

Why do you need a heap ceiling?  How would I find out a value for
Solaris/sparc?

Ray