[Soot-list] Compiling Soot

[Michael Robert BATCHELDER]

This in fact did the trick. I had been operating under the false 
assumption that ANT_OPTS could be set in my .bashrc.

Thanks for the help.

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Prof. Laurie HENDREN wrote:

> 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