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Re: Building 1.0.3a on ultrasparc solaris 2.6 crashes system
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Subject: Re: Building 1.0.3a on ultrasparc solaris 2.6 crashes system
- From: Kurt Swanson <kurt at dna dot lth dot se>
- Date: 28 Jul 1998 10:20:57 +0200
- Cc: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>, egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com, tomas at dna dot lth dot se
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9807230953320.11629-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>>> I've attempted building egcs-1.0.3a on a couple of different
>>> ultrasparcs three times now. Each time the make bootstrap ends up in
>>> freezing the system completely [...]
>> I would tend to guess hardware failure since apparently it happens
>> at different times during the build.
> As Kurt mentioned this happened on _different_ UltraSparcs, it could
> be some (hardware) problem with a NFS Server where the source and/or
> object directories reside.
> Some ideas: Kurt, have you tried fully local builds (in /tmp or similiar)?
> Is your file server also Solaris 2.6? Have you tried disabling NFS3? Have
> you installed the latest set of patches recommended by SunSoft?
Yes, a local build was completely successful. The server is also
2.6. I did not try disabling NFS3. I am unaware of the Solaris patch
state of our machines.
Thanks for the tip. The compilers are up and running well. Quite
well, indeed!
It may be wise to mention the Solaris problem in the build faq.
--
Kurt Swanson, Department of Computer Science, Lund University.
kurt@dna.lth.se (© 1998 Kurt Swanson AB)