Re: kernel compile failing on fedora 12

[vorad <vorad.1100@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am having the same problem on a debian and probably I would run into it on whatever OS I'll run - the weird thing is that I get this error only when trying to compile the kernel. Other then that the system is pretty stable - so I was thinking if there are any ways of determining what's wrong and why I can't compile it ... most probably it's a hardware issue, but I can't nail it down.

Thanks for your help!

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:19 PM, vorad <vorad.1100@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi guys, I am trying to install the latest stable tree (2.6.32.7) and it seems I am having some hard time doing so on Fedora 12. Here are the steps that I follow:

1. Clone the git tree.
2. make menuconfig O=../stable-out - I like to keep the tree clean
3. make O=../stable-out ---> and here it seg faults each time at another line in the code, which makes me think has nothing to do with the kernel, rather with gcc:

internal compiler error: Segmentation fault                                                     
Please submit a full bug report,                                                                                                                            
with preprocessed source if appropriate.                                                                                                                    
See <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> for instructions.                                                                                                 
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.                                                                                      
make[2]: *** [crypto/deflate.o] Error 1                                                                                                                     
make[1]: *** [crypto] Error 2                                                                                                                               
make: *** [sub-make] Error 2        


$ gcc -v                                                                                                                      
Using built-in specs.                                                                                                                                       
Target: i686-redhat-linux                                                                                                                                   
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --enable-plugin --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic --with-arch=i686 --build=i686-redhat-linux                                                                            
Thread model: posix                                                                                                                                         
gcc version 4.4.2 20091222 (Red Hat 4.4.2-20) (GCC)


Maybe you can give me a hint on how I can debug this, even if it's not very kernel related.

Thanks!