On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> Is there a prefered way to change the 'datasize' limit for packages?  I'm
> almost (really) done with scilab-2.4, but on my NetBSD-1.3.1/pmax machine,
> the link stage takes 34-35 MB of memory so I have to do
> 
> 'limit datasize 40000'
> 
> before 'make'

If it's just for compiling, putting something like

do-build:
	limit datasize 40000 ; make

(and maybe pass any (env)variables you might need)


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>