mmap fails to allocate memory (installing Ikarus Scheme compiler)

[Václav Zeman]

On 04/28/2013 02:47 AM, Daniel Ritchie wrote:
> I'm trying to build the Ikarus Scheme compiler
> (https://launchpad.net/ikarus, version 0.0.3:
> https://launchpad.net/ikarus/0.0/0.0.3/+download/ikarus-0.0.3.tar.gz),
> and I'm encountering a problem with mmap:
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/Daniel/ikarus-0.0.3/scheme'
> ../src/ikarus -b ./ikarus.boot.prebuilt --r6rs-script makefile.ss
> failed to mmap: Cannot allocate memory
> 
> The author claims to have ported the code to work under Cygwin, but the
> project hasn't had much activity lately, so it's possible something has
> changed underneath it to cause this to break. I'd like to get some
> insight on whether this is a problem with (a) Ikarus, (b) my Cygwin
> setup, or (c) the Cygwin implementation of mmap.
Try to run the failing command under Cygwin's strace.

-- 
VZ



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