Hi, Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Jeff Trefftzs <trefftzs@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > An additional effect that I have noticed only with the gimp, is that > > make crashes repeatedly during the compile. I was wondering if this > > meant I was running out of temp disk, but I still have close to 2G left > > on the root filesystem, so that isn't it; I have tried compiling with > > and without /usr/local/lib in the ld.so.conf file and both compiles > > crash (segfault) after compiling for a long time. Note that if I simply > > reissue the make command the compile picks up where it left off, and > > eventually I get a brand new gimp. > > > > Has anybody seen problems like these, and can you suggest any possible > > causes or other places to look? It's not a show-stopper, but it > > certainly has been leaving me baffled. > This sounds very much like a hardware problem. Unsufficient cooling or > corrupted memory could be the cause. It's not too unlikely that such > problems only show up when compiling a large software package such as > The GIMP. You could do some tests compiling other software such as the > kernel or XFree86. It's a long-shot, but I had exactly this problem when I was using libsafe. Disabling it for the configure and compile fixed it. Keith
