[Bug gold/5990] running out of file descriptors when linking >1024 files

[nickc at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com  2008-03-28 07:26 
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Subject: Re:  New: running out of file descriptors when linking
 >1024 files

Hi Chris,

> When trying to link a binary which takes a large number of files, I get many
> errors like this:
> 
> ld-new: cannot open ../driver/ic/via/sinai/mlxhh/obj/1/mcgm.o: Too many open 
> files
> 
> This is coming from Read_symbols::do_read_symbols.
> 
> I can obviously work around the problem by increasing the number of allowed 
> open
> file desriptors.

Or you could place the object files into a library.  Or a thin archive...

Cheers
   Nick




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