[Rd] "Out of memory" while building R with perl 5.8.2 (PR#6596)

[vangyzen at stat.duke.edu]

Full_Name: Eric van Gyzen
Version: 1.8.1
OS: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE
Submission from: (NULL) (152.3.22.120)


After updating perl from 5.6.1 to 5.8.2, R no longer builds.

Also note that the build continued even after the failure.  Is that a bug or a
feature?

================================================================================
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'base'
     Formats: text html latex example 
  AIC                               text    html    latex   example
[snip]
  palettes                          text    html    latex   example
  panel.smooth                      text    html    latex   example
Out of memory during "large" request for 69632 bytes, total sbrk() is 536670208
bytes at /usr/ports/math/R-letter/work/R-1.8.1/share/perl/R/Rdconv.pm line 369,
<rdfile> line 120763.
*** Error code 12

Stop in /usr/ports/math/R-letter/work/R-1.8.1/src/library.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/math/R-letter/work/R-1.8.1/src/library.
MAKE="make" R_LIBS= ../../../bin/R CMD INSTALL -l ../../../library survival.tgz
* Installing *source* package 'survival' ...