Hi everyone
The following problem has me stumped:
While compiling my computer locked up. The only option I had we to hit
the reset button. When I tried to compile my source again an object file
was truncated to 0 bytes.
To get an idea of my file organisation:
tidalcreek
|
| - debug
| |
| |- gui
| | |- gtkdrawwidgets
| | ..... other build directories
|-gui
| |- gtkdrawwidgets
| .... other source directories
The offending object file is
tidalcreek/debug/gui/gtkdrawwidgets/gtkroad.o (build from source file
tidalcreek/gui/gtkdrawwidgets/gtkroad.c)
Steps I took to rectify the problem
Delete the truncated object file and recompile => resulting object file
created with 0 bytes.
Delete the object file, forced a fsck on reboot, rebooted and recompiled
=> resulting object file created with 0 bytes.
Deleted complete build tree (I am using autotools), remade the build
tree and recompiled => resulting object file created with 0 bytes.
Created a text file gtkroad.o and put some text in it, saved and
reloaded in text editor => fine
Deleted text file, compiled => resulting object file created with 0 bytes.
I tried to manually compile the file
(PWD=tidalcreek/debug/gui/gtkdrawwidgets/):
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I/home/alwin/transpread/trunk/tidalcreek/gui/gtkdrawwidgets -I../..
-I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0
-I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -Wall -O0 -g3 -MT
gtkroad.o -MD -MP -c -o gtkroad.o
/home/alwin/transpread/trunk/tidalcreek/gui/gtkdrawwidgets/gtkroad.c
Now I know that there is one warning generated when this code is
compiled. When I execute the above line, no warning is generated and a
truncated object file is created.
I next tried to change the name of the output file:
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I/home/alwin/transpread/trunk/tidalcreek/gui/gtkdrawwidgets -I../..
-I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0
-I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -Wall -O0 -g3 -MT
gtkroad.o -MD -MP -c -o gtkroad2.o
/home/alwin/transpread/trunk/tidalcreek/gui/gtkdrawwidgets/gtkroad.c
This created a truncated object file called gtkroad2.o. No warning reported.
Next I changed the preprocessor target file name:
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I/home/alwin/transpread/trunk/tidalcreek/gui/gtkdrawwidgets -I../..
-I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0
-I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -Wall -O0 -g3 -MT
gtkroad2.o -MD -MP -c -o gtkroad.o
/home/alwin/transpread/trunk/tidalcreek/gui/gtkdrawwidgets/gtkroad.c
This worked! a valid gtkroad.o file was created as well as a gtkroad.d
file with target gtkroad2.o in the first line.
Created build tree with a different build root name (debug1 instead of
debug) and compile => works fine
I'm running Fedora 11 and gcc version 4.4
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Alwin Leerling
