Re: Sig 11's

[hgweigand@wiesbaden.netsurf.de (Hans-Guenter Weigand)]

> I am getting a fair amount of sig 11's from my egcc (and the former gcc).
> I'm assuming this is resource related and have increased my data-limit to
> 32meg to no avail.
> 
> I have a Sparc 1+ with 64mb ram and 64mb swap, and otherwise default
> config. I have yet to see the system memory go beyond 34 meg, which
> somewhat puzzle's me.

I had the same problem on my Sparc 10, because I made a mistake while
building the new compiler. I restarted with a clean 2.5 system and
stricly followed the instructions posted on this list for bootstrapping
egcs. This worked.

My first thought was 'defective RAM', but the machine was able to build
XFree86 under Solaris several times without any problems.

It is also important to clean up /usr/lib and /usr/include. Libraries,
which are newer than the rest of the system, may break the new compiler.
And if you ran a 'make includes' with current sources, you'll have to
find a way to reinstall the old include files, which fit the installed
libraries. The latter was my mistake, I think, having old libs and new
includes. There were two significant libc-changes between 2.5 and now.

You can save a lot of grief by installing a current snapshot, which
contains everything you want, i.e. libraries, includes, egcs. A full
'make build', which is necessary after installing new include files,
isn't fun on an 1+, I think...

-hgw