[kaffe] CVS kaffe (robilad): Documented ulimit workarounds for Darwin

[Kaffe CVS]

PatchSet 5642 
Date: 2005/04/02 14:17:02
Author: robilad
Branch: HEAD
Tag: (none) 
Log:
Documented ulimit workarounds for Darwin

2005-04-02  Riccardo Mottola <zuse at libero.it>

        * FAQ/FAQ.Known-Bugs:
        Added information on ulimit workarounds for old Darwin
        systems.

Members: 
	ChangeLog:1.3812->1.3813 
	FAQ/FAQ.Known-Bugs:1.53->1.54 

Index: kaffe/ChangeLog
diff -u kaffe/ChangeLog:1.3812 kaffe/ChangeLog:1.3813
--- kaffe/ChangeLog:1.3812	Sat Apr  2 10:09:39 2005
+++ kaffe/ChangeLog	Sat Apr  2 14:17:02 2005
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2005-04-02  Riccardo Mottola <zuse at libero.it>
+
+	* FAQ/FAQ.Known-Bugs:
+	Added information on ulimit workarounds for old Darwin 
+	systems.
+
 2005-04-01  Dalibor Topic  <robilad at kaffe.org>
 
 	* config/arm/common.h,
Index: kaffe/FAQ/FAQ.Known-Bugs
diff -u kaffe/FAQ/FAQ.Known-Bugs:1.53 kaffe/FAQ/FAQ.Known-Bugs:1.54
--- kaffe/FAQ/FAQ.Known-Bugs:1.53	Fri May 23 10:54:06 2003
+++ kaffe/FAQ/FAQ.Known-Bugs	Sat Apr  2 14:17:06 2005
@@ -128,3 +128,18 @@
   eternally to check maximum length of command line arguments. This is a
   bug of autoconf, and current workaround is to be patient (drinking coffe
   or going to bed) or use 'bash' rather than 'sh' distributed with the os.
+  (This was fixed in latest configure versions, so newer kaffe will configure faster.
+  Also note that running configure with -C will cache most reaults and help
+  reconfiguring on old machines)
+  
+* on some platforms GNU make may mysteriously fail when building java classes
+  from rt.jar. The reason is a too restrticted shell limit as probably make tries
+  to open too many file descriptors. Unlimit your shell (unlimit/limit in csh and
+  ulimit in bash). Known to be affected are darwin 5.x and 6.x standard limits.
+
+* on some platforms when the user has already spawned many processes "make check"
+  may fail due to insufficient system resources. Good ways to work this around
+  are stopping unneded processes, restarting the computer, logging out and in
+  again or once again unlimit your shell limits to the maximum allowed.
+  In case of problems try a combination of the above, unlimiting with a fresh and
+  idle system.