[SOLVED] regression with elilo on slackware -current (x86 version)

elilo doesn't build anymore on slackware -current (x86 version):
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NFIG -DCONFIG_LOCALFS -DCONFIG_NETFS -DCONFIG_CHOOSER_SIMPLE -DCONFIG_CHOOSER_TEXTMENU -DCONFIG_ia32 -c system.c -o system.o
virtual memory exhausted: Ne peut allouer de la mémoire
make[1]: *** [../ia32/../Make.rules:34 : system.o] Erreur 1
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it seems to be memory exhaustion?

Same here in a VM
RAM : 4Go
Swap : 2Go

tried with +4Go swapfile, without success

My system is a pure slackware system with:
RAM: 16 Go
Swap: 8 Go

doesn't exhaust qt5, and when I looked at the memory situation with htop, no saturation.
the line that fails is in Make.rules (34):
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$(CC) $(INCDIR) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
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As OpenSUSE is the last distribution shipping eLiLo beyond Slackware, have a look at the patches in https://build.opensuse.org/package/s...:Factory/elilo

Anyway this is some kind of "acharnement thérapeuthique" (en Français dans le texte.)

none has an idea to solve this problem?

Originally Posted by nobodino none has an idea to solve this problem?

I doubt that anyone uses elilo on 32bit... as UEFI for 32bit computers is a rather rare phenomenon.

Is there even any efi 32 bit systems out in the wild, that can't be boot with traditional lilo?

Just a thought: the elilo package ships with pre-built binary .efi files from 2018. The only thing that's actually compiled and packaged is eliloalt. Replacing the "make || exit 1" line in the SlackBuild with

cd tools
make || exit 1
cd ..

just builds eliloalt and leaves the rest alone. Would that compile successfully on a 32-bit machine?

Thanks pghvlaans, that did the trick.

no more package don't build on x86 slackware with this last patch.

\o/

ps: @nobodino, don't forget to mark it as solved ;-) (or maybe, you prefer to wait for Pat to include it ...)

I marked it closed, only when the build tree takes it into account.

In the SFS build tree I made this change in the SlackBuild:

# We will build this from source.
# However, we will package the pre-built EFI binaries, since we would
# like to include both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 EFI loaders in the
# finished package.
# modification to allow the package to be built on slackware version x86
case "$( uname -m )" in
    x86_64) 
		make || exit 1 ;;

    i686)
		cd tools
		make || exit 1
		cd .. ;;
esac

It doesn't change anything for x86_64, and solves the x86 build version.

Current source tree updated. Thanks.