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Re: build: Maximum buffer size exceeded
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Daniel Pfeiffer |
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Re: build: Maximum buffer size exceeded |
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Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:42:55 +0100 |
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> skribis:
> > From: Daniel Pfeiffer <occitan@esperanto.org>
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:46:18 +0100
> >
> > > First, please note that reporting failures to build here is not
> > > recommended: you should either report them on bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > Doesn't seem to be working currently. I recently got two mails back with:
> > host mx10.gnu.org [199.232.76.166]: 550 Invalid address in message header
>
> Something is wrong with the way you sent that message, or maybe there
> was a temporary outage at gnu.org. The address I mentioned is correct
> and works for me.
It has worked for me too, before.
> > > (for released versions of Emacs), or to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org (for
> > > CVS and pretest versions). Many Emacs developers don't read this
> > > forum, so they will never see your report.
> >
> > Also no answer from them yet, so I tried here in the newsgroup.
>
> I don't remember I saw your message in emacs-pretest-bug (so perhaps
> resend), but in any case, you should not expect a response too soon:
> some developers are busy and don't reply immediately. Please be
> patient.
May the Tao be with me :-)
> > > What Emacs is trying to tell you is that when it tried to load
> > > file.el, it found that file to be more than 128MB, the maximum size of
> > > a buffer Emacs can handle. What you need to figure out is how come
> > > files.el, which is only about 170KB, causes Emacs to think it's much
> > > larger.
> >
> > I put an strace into the Makefile, and see that it normally opens a file,
> > writes Loading... and then reads. But on the last one, it successfully
> > opens the file, closes it, yet writes Loading... and then then goes and
> > opens and closes it again.
>
> Did you look at files.el? Is there any garbage in it? What is its
> size as reported by `ls'?
Yes I had, and like I'd said, by byte compiling lisp sources, the problem
comes at a later spot. In the meantime I've byte-compiled everything, but
it still doesn't get through.
I suppose somehow the max must be less than those 128 Mb, but I don't know
where to look. Any clue?
coralament / best Grötens / liebe Grüße / best regards / elkorajn salutojn
Daniel Pfeiffer
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