> On Jul 16, 2018, at 10:10 AM, Alan W. Irwin <alan.w.irwin1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 2018-06-09 13:30-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> On 2018-04-15 11:15-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >>> Hi Jerry: >> [...] >>> So once this Ada build issue appeared again for me yesterday after all >>> those previous successful hardware checks, I did a google search for >>> the terms (without the quotes) "gnatmake intermittent build error" and >>> found >>> <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=65451> >>> which was a bug report in 2015 about intermittent Ada build issues >>> which was immediately fixed back then. However, my gnat version (= >>> 4.9.2) is from 2014 so I don't have that bugfix and I am pretty sure >>> at this stage that bug 65451 is the issue that is causing the >>> intermittent Ada build issues for me. Therefore, I plan to use the >>> -DENABLE_ada=OFF option for my further testing until I can get access >>> to a later version of the Ada build tools myself, and I suggest others >>> who currently don't have access to Ada build tools with bug 65451 >>> fixed should do the same. >> >> Just to follow up for Debian Buster with gnat-7 (as opposed to gnat-4 that I >> was using for Debian Jessie) the first test of Ada has been a complete >> success. >> See commit 994723471 for the details of the tests I ran. > > Hi Jerry: > > I just ran into this issue for the first time for my new hardware and > latest Ada/gnat (version 7.3.0) from Debian Buster (sigh). I was > doing a parallel build (with -j10 for my new system with 8 real > cores), when the following error was encountered: > > ./plplot_standard.o: file not recognized: File truncated > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > gnatlink-7: error when calling /usr/bin/gcc-7 > gnatmake: *** link failed. > examples/ada/CMakeFiles/xstandard30a.dir/build.make:77: recipe for target > 'examples/ada/xstandard30a' failed > make[3]: *** [examples/ada/xstandard30a] Error 4 > > A google search found > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857831> which > appears to be a similar (or the same bug) for 7.1. At the time, the > Debian packagers thought they had a fix, but it seems from my > experience either that was not true or else the fix has not been > propagated to 7.3. I have just now privately reported the situation to > Matthias Klose (the author of the bug 857831 report, and they guy who > decided that bug was fixed), and we will see what he says. But to > work around this problem until it is fixed for Debian Buster, I plan > to use -DENABLE_ada=OFF for my testing. > > Alan
Thanks for the update, Alan. Keep me posted. Jerry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
