Bug 117473 – gcc 3.3.6 fails to compile

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alan Hourihane 2006-01-02 11:03:13 UTC]

When updating gcc it tries to build gcc 3.3.6 but gets stuck at the following....

* Fixing misc issues in configure files
*   Updating boehm-gc/configure...

and seems to get stuck in a loop and never completes.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-01-02 11:09:23 UTC]

emerge --info, please...

[Comment 2 Alan Hourihane 2006-01-02 11:17:20 UTC]

Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre12
Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, gli bc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.4.31-sparc sparc64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.31-sparc sparc64 sun4u
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.26-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc ~sparc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc"
CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/ config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://server/gentoo-portage"
USE="sparc X arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups dlloader encode esd e xpat fbcon foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde l ibwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png  python qt readline sdl spell ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb xml2 xmms xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVER LAY

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2006-01-02 11:31:43 UTC]

downgrade your portage to 2.0.54 and re-run emerge

if that still fails, run `emerge ~gcc-3.3.6 --debug >& log` and post the log as an attachment to this bug

[Comment 4 Alan Hourihane 2006-01-02 11:56:31 UTC]

Created attachment 76013 [details]
gcc 3.3.6 build log

I'd actually upgraded portage to 2.1_pre because of this problem just to check, but it also happens with 2.0.54.

Attached is the debug output which shows that it's not boehm-gc/configure that's causing it as that seems to complete, but './contrib/gcc_update --touch' seems to stick the build process.

[Comment 5 Alan Hourihane 2006-01-02 12:00:51 UTC]

Now, running that manually from the incomplete build shows this...

Touching gcc/cstamp-h.in...
Touching boehm-gc/aclocal.m4...
Touching boehm-gc/Makefile.in
Touching libjava/Makefile.in
Touching gcc/cstamp-h.in...
Touching boehm-gc/aclocal.m4...
Touching boehm-gc/Makefile.in
Touching libjava/Makefile.in
Touching gcc/cstamp-h.in...
Touching boehm-gc/aclocal.m4...
Touching boehm-gc/Makefile.in
Touching libjava/Makefile.in
Touching gcc/cstamp-h.in...
Touching boehm-gc/aclocal.m4...
Touching boehm-gc/Makefile.in
Touching libjava/Makefile.in
Touching gcc/cstamp-h.in...
Touching boehm-gc/aclocal.m4...
Touching boehm-gc/Makefile.in
Touching libjava/Makefile.in

and it keeps repeating forever.....

[Comment 6 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2006-01-02 12:03:28 UTC]

Try upgrading to sparc-sources-2.4.31-r2 or newer (2.4.32 preferred) since 2.4.31 had a utimes bug for sparc64 which can easily be the cause for this.

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2006-01-02 12:07:47 UTC]

i thought your short log was from somewhere else (ebuild) but what youve shown is part of the configure process of gcc itself ... and if your kernel has a bug with timestamps, then Gustavo is spot on

[Comment 8 Alan Hourihane 2006-01-03 02:26:26 UTC]

Thanks, upgrading to 2.4.32 fixed the problem.