Trouble compiling Repetier-host (3d printing software)

[Suilenroc]

Hi everyone -

First post on these forums. I apologize if this has been answered, but a search came up with nothing.


I'm attempting to install the AUR package "repetier-host" on the Raspberry Pi, but I'm getting a consistent error. Specifically, the package "perl-boost-geometry-utils" fails to build. I receive a few errors, none of which I'm sure how to deal with. When I was copying them here, I noticed that one of them was an "out-of-memory" error. So, I decided to add a 1GB USB drive swap partition. Now I'm getting a different error: an endless stream of the error message "alloc_urb: kmalloc failed." There's one more message that sometimes comes up, but it passes through the screen so quickly that I can't tell what it's saying. It's something about "eth0: kevent 2 may have been dropped." I don't know why the pi would be using the eth0 port while compiling locally, but it's there so I'm posting it.

Thanks for any help you can give me. I'll try few other things, like using a powered hub instead of my keyboard's USB adapter.

[Suilenroc]

Fixed it myself! Turns out it WAS the memory error - I just had to have the USB Swap drive on a powered hub instead of the unpowered keyboard. The compilation took a while but it worked in the end.

So for the sake of people finding themselves here through search engines years from now: If your Raspberry Pi is giving you an out of memory error while compiling, add a swap partition. If you add that partition on an external drive, make sure it has a separate power source.