Hi, 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. Sven
