[FFmpeg-devel] make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop.

[Måns Rullgård]

Alban Bedel wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:45:29 +0100 (BST)
> M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Alban Bedel wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > there seems to be some problem with the new Makefiles. I get a
>> > "virtual memory exhausted" error when compiling lav* from MPlayer.
>> > I tried ffmepg itself and I get the same error. Attached is a make
>> > -d log (although it doesn't seems to contain anything useful) and my
>> > config.mak.
>>
>> Try the latest version of GNU make.  Yours is 6 years old.
>
> That did the trick, but having a configure check would be better.

I wasn't aware of the problem until now.  Adding a check for the make
version should be easy enough.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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