Bug 18674

Summary:	Compile error in binutils during bootstrap
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chip Marshall <chip>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Chip Marshall 2003-04-03 00:21:56 UTC

When attempting to install Gentoo on my PC, during the bootstrap.sh stage, I get
a compile error inside of binutils. I've had the error move around a bit, but I
don't suspect the hardware, since it's done tons of FreeBSD buildworlds just
fine, which I would expect to put a similar load on the system.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Unpack stage1 tarball
2. emerge sync
3. cd /usr/gentoo; scripts/bootstrap.sh

Actual Results:  
make[1]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.13.90.0.18/work/binutils-2.13.90.0.18/bfd/doc'
gcc -c -I.. -I./.. -I./../../include -I./../../intl -I../../intl  -mcpu=athlon
-O3 -pipe ./chew.c
chew.c: In function `paramstuff':
chew.c:1505: internal error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <URL:http://bugs.gentoo.org/> for instructions.
make[1]: *** [chew.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.13.90.0.18/work/binutils-2.13.90.0.18/bfd/doc'
make: *** [headers] Error 2
make: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.13.90.0.18/work/binutils-2.13.90.0.18/bfd'

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/binutils-2.13.90.0.18 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 84, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)



Expected Results:  
Install happily, eventually leading to a happy new Gentoo install.

This machine is an AthlonXP 1800+ on a Gigabyte GA-7VTXE motherboard (VIA
chipset) with 512MB of PC2100 DDR RAM. The filesystem this is compiling in is a
ReiserFS, if that makes any difference.

!!! No gcc found. You probably need to 'source /etc/profile' to update
!!! the environment of this terminal and possibly other terminals also.

Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, [unavailable], glibc-2.3.1-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-xfs i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="oss apm berkdb gdbm gpm java libg++ libwww mikmod motif nls pam pdflib
python qt sdl svga tcpd truetype xml2 xv zlib -3dfx 3dno
w aalib -acpi -alsa -arts avi cdr crypt cups dga dvd encode esd gif -gnome gtk
-gkt2 imap imlib jpeg -ipv6 -kde mmx mozilla mpeg mys
ql ncurses opengl oggvorbis pda perl png quicktime readline ruby -slang spell
ssl usb X xmms x86"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

Also happens with -mcpu=athlon-xp

Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-03 14:00:20 UTC

Two suggestions:

1)  Check your ram with memtest86 just to be sure.

2)  Try using a swap partition of at least 256mb if you did not (swapon it
    before chroot ...)

Comment 2 Chip Marshall 2003-04-04 16:33:38 UTC

Yeah, I probably should have run the memory test before claiming the hardware to be good. I've got a bunch of bad bits hanging around the 430MB mark. Guess it's time to go RAM shopping. Sorry to waste your time.

Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-04 16:43:00 UTC

faulty hardware. closing.