[Soot-list] Compiling Soot

[Prof. Laurie HENDREN]

You have to put something like this is a file called .antrc.

ANT_OPTS="$ANT_OPTS -Xmx700m"

Cheers, Laurie


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On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Michael Robert BATCHELDER wrote:

>
> 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
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