On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 1:50 PM, K. Piche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While trying to build the latest SBCL I came across an interesting > problem. The build halts midway and clocks the CPU at 100%. > > A quick search shows that GCC 4.3.0 changed the ABI slightly to conform > to the formal standard as opposed to the defacto standard. GCC stopped > clearing or setting the DF before function calls which is out of step > with the kernel which expects it set/cleared. Apparently this mostly > affects signal handlers called by the kernel. This causes problems with > the signal functions in our glibc because it was compiled with GCC > 4.3.0. I installed glibc 2.7-7 and sbcl builds fine now. > > A better explanation of the problem can be found at > http://lwn.net/Articles/272048/ and at the very bottem there is a link > to a Debian bug. > > The problem is fixed in kernel 2.6.25 and (sigh) there is a patch > available for 2.6.24.
This was fixed in 2.6.24.4 as well, so we shouldn't be seeing issues... http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git;a=commit;h=cc7571b226c93b032164ebb3ff3b365651c4652f -Dan
