----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Dubbs" <[email protected]>
To: "LFS Support List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 10:47:47 AM
Subject: Re: gcc test failures
Alex Bosworth wrote:
> Here's the synopsis:
>
> Been trying to compile LFS (from the latest svn version) on my laptop, I have
> tried four times so far (please note I'm making use of JHLAFS). During all
> the
> four builds, gcc tests don't seem to be satisfactory as the number of
> unexpected
> failures is too high and the number of expected passes is too low. I have
> tried
> changing the CFLAGS and tried to be conservative but, the result seems to be
> the
> same. The fourth time I chose to run tests both for the tools and the final
> system. As I can see tests for all other packages are successful (All # tests
> were successful) except for gcc ! The CFLAGS I used for the fourth build are
> "-O3 -pipe -msse -msse2 -mmmx -march=native -mtune=native". The processor is
> an
> Intel Penitum4 Mobile.
>
> The only deviations from the SVN book are m4 (using 1.4.16), mpc (using
> 0.9),
> less (using 446).
>
> Here's the "grep -A7 Summ" output:
> === g++ Summary ===
>
> # of expected passes 6
> # of unexpected failures 3543
> >I agree that this number of failures is way too high. Since you are
> >using jhalfs, the problem is not a typo. I would suspect a hardware
> >problem of some kind. Do you have enough free memory or diskspace? Can
> >you duplicate the problme on another system?
> > -- Bruce
Thanks for the reply.
I don't think this is a hardware problem as none of the other packages fail
their tests and I don't encounter any crashes or errors during normal use. As
far the disk space and memory are concerned I do have about 768MB of RAM with
1GB swap with several GBs of free disk space. I have compiled LFS/BLFS a few
times before this and I never had any problems then. As I'm using JHALFS, it
includes gcc and a few other packages from custom optimizations. So it has
nothing to do with the custom optimizations at least not directly.
Unfortunately I don't have similar hardware available to me now (I do have a
desktop with a quad core X86_64, I don't think I would encounter this problem
on that machine).
Alex
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