Bug 35047 – emerge system when installing yields segmentation fault while compiling gcc-3.2.3-r3

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Torbjörn Törnkvist 2003-12-04 04:28:52 UTC]

I'm installing Gentoo on an old IBM-thinkpad (without a CD-ROM).
While doing an 'emerge system' I get segmentation fault
when compiling gcc-3.2.3-r3, see then output below:
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stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -c -DIN_GCC   
-march=pentium2 -pipe -O2 -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wmissing-prototypes   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H    -I. -Icp
-I/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/gcc-3.2.3/gcc
-I/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/gcc-3.2.3/gcc/cp
-I/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/gcc-3.2.3/gcc/config
-I/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/gcc-3.2.3/gcc/../include  \
        /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/gcc-3.2.3/gcc/cp/parse.c -o cp/parse.o
stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -c -DIN_GCC   
-march=pentium2 -pipe -O2 -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wmissing-prototypes   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H    -I. -Icp
-I/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/gcc-3.2.3/gcc
-I/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/gcc-3.2.3/gcc/cp
-I/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/gcc-3.2.3/gcc/config
-I/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/gcc-3.2.3/gcc/../include
/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/gcc-3.2.3/gcc/cp/ptree.c -o cp/ptree.o
/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/gcc-3.2.3/gcc/cp/ptree.c:-8: internal error:
Segmentation fault
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make[2]: *** [cp/ptree.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/build/gcc'
make[1]: *** [stage2_build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.2.3-r3/work/build/gcc'
make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/gcc-3.2.3-r3 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 411, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)
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Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get an old IBM-Thinkpad (laptop) without a CD-ROM.
2. Use slackware floppies to setup linux and networking.
3. Setup partitions and do chroot accordingly.
4. Unpack stage-2 tar-ball.
5. emerge sync
6. emerge system
7. ...study crash output...

[Comment 1 Torbjörn Törnkvist 2003-12-04 08:34:26 UTC]

Come to think of that it may be lack of memory that causes
the seg.fault. I'll try with a less aggressive flag (e.g -O).

[Comment 2 Torbjörn Törnkvist 2003-12-04 12:19:48 UTC]

Yes, that was the problem, i.e memory exhaustion.