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Re: Linux 2.6 nanosecond time stamp weirdness breaks GCC build
- From: Ulrich Weigand <weigand at i1 dot informatik dot uni-erlangen dot de>
- To: janis187 at us dot ibm dot com (Janis Johnson)
- Cc: weigand at i1 dot informatik dot uni-erlangen dot de (Ulrich Weigand), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, schwidefsky at de dot ibm dot com, ak at suse dot de
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:41:28 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Linux 2.6 nanosecond time stamp weirdness breaks GCC build
Janis Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:28:20PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm seeing a race condition on Linux 2.6 that rather reproducibly
> > causes GCC bootstrap failures on current mainline.
>
> We saw lots of parallel build problems when using a 2.6 kernel on
> an older distribution. The problems went away when we used 'make'
> built with a new version of glibc.
I'm using pretty recent versions of everything: a glibc 2.3.3 as of
2004-03-11, binutils 2.15.90.0.1, make 3.80, and a 2.6.4+ kernel.
Bye,
Ulrich
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Dr. Ulrich Weigand
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