Sane compilation ate my ram!

Jim Ford (jf001@watford.net)
Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:58:39 +0100

I've just ordered a scanner and decided in the meantime to install the
software. I grabbed the latest Sane package (0.72) and have tried
compiling it. It first ate my 64 meg of ram and then when that ran out,
started snacking on my swap partition. When _that_ ran out, it burped
and announced "virtual memory exhausted" (in line 3686 of compiling
umax.c)!

Now I guess that there is something wrong here and I don't have to
install more memory! I also guess that I'm not alone with this problem
and I won't need to trawl through a lot of source code to find the
problem for myself.

Any ideas, anyone?

Regards: Jim Ford

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