Richard Melville wrote: > >> Just went through this step in linux mint 32bit in vmware and found > >>> no issues. > >>> > >>> That's because it's an intermittent bug. I've just had the same > >>> problem using Linux Mint Cinnamon 64 bit. Sometimes the error > >>> message appears and sometimes it doesn't. If you look back through > >>> the posts in the mailing list you will see that a number of people > >>> have experienced this bug irrespective of host used. > > >> If the person does make again, does the system continue to build? > >> > >> If so, what is their MAKEFLAGS setting or are they using make -j 2 or > >> 4 or 6 or 8? > >> > >> If not, do they have to remove the gcc build and gcc source > >> directories, then reextract gcc, then extract gmp, mpfr, mpc in the > >> gcc source tree then create gcc-build then reconfigure? And then does > >> that make it work? > > > My error message was on pass 2; pass 1 worked as expected, but looking at > > the posts it seems to make no difference; it appears to be random. > > > > I tried running make again but it failed at the same place -- MPC > configure > > couldn't find the MPFR libraries even though they were there. > > > > I've tried with, and without, make -j 2. > > > > It took me five attempts to get GCC to build; I tried removing all > traces > > of GCC, reextracting, and trying again with no success. On one occasion, > > in desperation, I copied and pasted all the commands to remove the > > possibility of an error introduced by me, but still no success. Finally, > I > > left the computer running and had a break. I returned and tried again > and > > bingo -- GCC compiled. I'm at a loss to explain why MPC configure > finally > > found the MPFR libraries when it couldn't find them before. > > > > To sum up -- whatever I did to try and make the compilation of GCC > succeed > > had absolutely no affect. On the fifth attempt when it did succeed I had > > removed all traces of GCC, reextracted, and run configure and make, > exactly > > as I had in some previous failed attempts. > > I have a lot of doubt that this build problem is random. That just > doesn't make sense in the absence of an intermittent HW error. The way > to isolate the problem is to create a short script of the commands used > and run that, capturing the output to a log. Posting the script and the > appropriate part of the log (certainly not all of it) gives us a chance > to review what you've done. > > -- Bruce > > Hi Bruce
A little late getting back to you but, yes, should the error reappear then I will create a log and send it to you. The problem is that it seems to be difficult to replicate. On another subject, and a minor issue, the tzdata package in the SVN-20120816 build instructions is version "e" but the package downloaded from the LFS repository is version "c" Richard
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