[Users] ld using lots of memory on Fedora Core 20

[Erik Schnetter]

I am puzzled. Is it maybe the case that this systems offers mostly static libraries instead of shared libraries? This would increase the size of the executable.

You don't perchance uses any options such as "-flto"?

-erik

On Apr 29, 2014, at 19:49 , Roland Haas <roland.haas at physics.gatech.edu> wrote:

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> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to test building the ET on Fedora core and find that the
> linking stage uses much more (1.3GB, the executable is 280M) memory
> than on the other Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian) that I tried.
> 
> I already tried the -no-keep-memory option which does not help.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with how to make the linker use less memory?
> 
> I follow the steps in
> https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Simplified_Tutorial_for_New_Users
> (which is what I am updating), with the exception of updating the
> mpich paths to no longer use mpich2 but instead mpich.
> 
> Yours,
> Roland
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