Re: Update for RedHat 7.1

[Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>]

Pete Popov wrote:

> Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> > Pete Popov wrote:
> >
> >
> >>H . J . Lu wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 11:57:47AM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>I have installed your new set of RedHat7.1 RPMs, and tried to build Perl
> >>>>>natively.
> >>>>>But it fails with the following message:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>`sh  cflags libperl.a toke.o`  toke.c
> >>>>>         CCCMD =  gcc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing
> >>>>>-I/usr/local/include
> >>>>>-O2
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Cannot allocate 2676168 bytes after allocating 3899765696 bytes
> >>>>>make: *** [toke.o] Error 1
> >>>>>error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.43439 (%build)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>RPM build errors:
> >>>>>   Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.43439 (%build)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>I tried to build perl again an now I get this message:
> >>>>
> >>>>`sh  cflags libperl.a toke.o`  toke.c
> >>>>         CCCMD =  gcc -DPERL_CORE -c -fno-strict-aliasing
> >>>>-I/usr/local/include -O2
> >>>>gcc: Internal error: Terminated (program cc1)
> >>>>Please submit a full bug report.
> >>>>See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions.
> >>>>make: *** [toke.o] Error 1
> >>>>error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.53242 (%build)
> >>>>
> >>>>RPM build errors:
> >>>>   Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.53242 (%build)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>It may be a kernel/hardware bug. I have no problem building perl
> >>>natively.
> >>>
> >>Carsten, what board/cpu are you using?
> >>
> >
> > On a Atlas board with a QED RM5261 CPU (little-endian).
> > The kernel is based on 2.4.3.
>
> I would try the exact same userland and kernel version on a different board,
> preferably with a different cpu.  Rebuild perl natively 10 times. If it works on
> the other board, there is a very good chance that this is a board or CPU
> problem. Native compiles seem to be very good for stressing the hardware.
>

Ok, I found the problem, it turn out that I only had 128K swap space, it should
have been 128M.
So after increasing my swap space, I was able to compile perl.

Thanks a lot.
/Carsten

>
> Pete

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