Bug 87697 – sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1 failed to compile..."can't find a register in class `GENERAL_REGS' while reloading `asm'"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Adam Jannetta 2005-04-02 11:13:49 UTC]

When I try to update from glibc-2.3.4.20050125 to glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1 I get the following error:

loadmsgcat.c: In function `_nl_init_domain_conv':
../sysdeps/i386/bits/string.h:655: error: can't find a register in class `GENERAL_REGS' while reloading `asm'
make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i386-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/intl/loadmsgcat.os] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/glibc-2.3.4/intl'
make[1]: *** [intl/subdir_lib] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/glibc-2.3.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1 failed.
!!! Function toolchain-glibc_src_compile, Line 237, Exitcode 2



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.add "sys-libs/glibc ~x86" to /etc/portage/package.keywords
2.emerge -u --deep world
3.

Actual Results:  
I get the error posted above. 

Expected Results:  
Compiled and installed successfully. 

bash-2.05b# emerge --info 
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, 
glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 10 2005, 
23:07:00)] 
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1 
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6 
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4 
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1 
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4 
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=athlon -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer" 
CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=athlon -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd emboss encode 
fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++libwww mad 
mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png 
python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell ssl svg svga tcpd tiff truetype 
truetype-fonts type1-fonts x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib" 
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Kees Jongenburger 2005-04-04 09:29:23 UTC]

Same problem here. I don't need to put the sys-libs/glib in the package.keywords to reproduce. I tried some sujections like adding the -mmx to the use flags but that did not work

[Comment 2 Adam Jannetta 2005-04-14 17:24:49 UTC]

I tried compiling this same version on my other gentoo system also getting the same error.

[Comment 3 Simon Strandman 2005-04-21 02:06:43 UTC]

Bug #82424 might be the cause of this.

[Comment 4 Simon Strandman 2005-04-21 12:49:56 UTC]

One thing everybody with this problem has in common is that they are all using CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" and linuxthreads. I'm going to try to reproduce it in a chroot.

Btw, this is a common problem:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-327199.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-326464.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-319595.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-324167.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-314053.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-309625.html

[Comment 5 Adam Jannetta 2005-04-21 19:29:57 UTC]

I removed -fomit-frame-pointer from my CFLAGS and reran emerge -u glibc and it compiled successfully on both my systems. Hooray! Do I close the bug or do the toolchain maintainers?

[Comment 6 Simon Strandman 2005-04-22 01:43:32 UTC]

Don't close it! This is still a problem for everbody on i386-pc-linux-gnu with -fomit-frame-pointer in their CFLAGS. I was able to reproduce this bug in a chroot and it only seems to affect i386-pc-linux-gnu users so the ebuild should be modified to only --enable-omitfp if the CHOST is i686-pc-linux-gnu or any other non x86 arch (I don't know about 1485 and i586).

[Comment 7 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2005-04-28 10:23:37 UTC]

This is fixed in a commit I made yesterday or the day before.