[WXP]: Any plan to use Ant instead of cygwin/make???

[Francis ANDRE]

Hi OpenJDK Team


While trying to build OpenJDK on WXP SP2, I am facing to a recurrent problem 
with cygwin that crashes because it could not allocate heap space...

$ make
       7 [main] ? (232756) C:\Progra~1\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - could
n't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x6E0000, reserve_size 61
440, allocsize 65536, page_const 4096


This intermittent heap memory allocation problem is a recurent one explained 
many times on the cygwin archives mailing list.

Even with the suggested command explained in 
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-11/msg00413.html

regtool -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygnus\ Solutions/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 2048

make fails on a regular basis... even after the execution of a rebaseall as 
stated in the cygwin mails.




So, that's why I am wondering if you plan to use cpptasks and ant script since 
using cpptask and the ant-contrib library could be a viable alternative to avoid 
the cygwin unstability.

Regards

FA