On Sunday 18 January 2009 06:38:15 Richard Watson wrote: > I'm sorry about the delay in closing this. I finally figured out if I > remove "-pipe" from my /etc/make.conf CFLAGS that all my compile errors go > away. Looking at the reference on the subject this option tells GCC not to > create temporary files when compiling but to turn this off if low on RAM. > Not sure why this happens as I have a 1GB Ram. Maybe this is not enough > these days. Anyway problem solved.
That's an interesting result, but I can't help thinking it's the wrong solution to the wrong problem. One of my machines has had merely 1G for 2 years, before that it had 512M for 3 years and it has never shown this symptom. I have servers at work with 512M - same thing, even when building current packages. Gut feel is telling me that removing -pipe is simply revealing a deeper symptom somewhere - 1G is actually an enormous amount of memory for compilation purposes. If you feel like digging deeper, I'd be very interested to see where this one leads. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
