[Soot-list] Compiling Soot

[Michael Robert BATCHELDER]

Hello folks,

I'm trying to compile soot but I am having a problem. Specifically, the 
ant task is failing with an error message that is stating that javac pukes 
on an 'outOfMemory' error. I've tried adding compilerarg tags to the javac 
task in the build.xml file to increase the initial and maximum heap sizes 
but with no luck (i.e. -Xms500m and -Xmx900m). I also tried '-J-Xms500m' 
since that seems to be the proper way to send those parameters to javac, 
but the ant task fails with an error: invalid javac parameter. 
Nevertheless, running javac myself on the commandline accepts this 
parameter just fine.

Everyone else in the Sable lab that I have talked to reports being able to 
compile soot without any problems using just the default ant settings and 
build file. The machine I am using has 1gig of RAM which, when I check the 
memory usage while ant is running, is certainly not being exhausted.

Does anyone have any ideas, hints, or suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Michael Batchelder

Sable Research Lab
School of Computer Science
McGill University