On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 11:33:11AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% "Art Haas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>   ah> The current CVS make produced the fatal error in the job.c file
>   ah> this morning while the 'make install' process of installing the
>   ah> latest GCC build was happening. The install failed during the
>   ah> installation of the libstdc++ libraries and headers. A 'cvs log'
>   ah> and 'cvs diff' indicates this error message has just been added to
>   ah> job.c.
> 
> Aha!  Good.  I added that to catch a problem with parallelism, but I
> couldn't figure out how to reproduce the problem in a test case.  I'll
> investigate GCC's build and see if I can figure out why it's happening.
> 
> Did you run make with -j, or just plain "make install"?

Plain 'make install'.

>   ah> Also, 'make' seems to be using much more memory than the 3.80
>   ah> version.  I can run 'top' and see make using 70+ Megs of memory
>   ah> when a GCC build is running, and in addition executing 'make
>   ah> install' on a completed GCC build takes a long time to actually
>   ah> begin installing things, where the older 'make' binary begins the
>   ah> installation process very quickly. I'm running on
>   ah> i586-pc-linux-gnu using Debian unstable, so the system make
>   ah> installed as /usr/bin/make is Debian's 3.80-9 package.
> 
> OK, I'll take a look at valgrind or similar.

Thanks.

Art Haas
-- 
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities
the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.

-Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822


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