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Date:      Fri, 5 Sep 2003 07:48:50 -0500
From:      Manuel Rabade - MiG <mig@mig-29.net>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Strange core dump of jade when building /usr/doc
Message-ID:  <20030905124850.GA37813@mig-29.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030905113327.GB411@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20030902222708.GC341@mig-29.net> <20030904205509.GB674@FreeBSD.org> <20030904230035.GA94554@mig-29.net> <20030905113327.GB411@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:33:28PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2003.09.04 18:00:35 -0500, Manuel Rabade - MiG wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:55:11PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > > On 2003.09.02 17:27:08 -0500, Manuel Rabade - MiG wrote:
> > > > Hi, i have updated /usr/doc (with only the documents in english and=
 spanish) and
> > > > when i do a 'make DOC_LANG=3Den_US.ISO8859-1 FORMATS=3Dhtml' jade c=
rashes in
> > > > /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs, sometimes as a 'Bus error' =
and other
> > > > times as a 'Segmentation fault'.
> > >=20
> > > I can't remeber that I have ever experienced jade coredumping... The
> > > fact that it dies with different errors make me suspect hardware erro=
r.
> > > It could also be non-standard CFLAGS in make.conf.
> > >=20
> > > I don't really have any other ideas to why it dies.
> >=20
> > Humm .. i think that it isn't a hardware error, is my desktop machine a=
nd i can
> > compile and run everything fine except *that* :'(.
> >=20
> > I "fix" it yesterday installing jade from a package (jade-1.2.1_1), so =
i think
> > that my CFLAGS ('CPUTYPE=3Dp4' and 'CFLAGS=3D-O2 -pipe') are breaking j=
ade, very
> > strange if it's the problem because that flags are not too much agressi=
ve.
>=20
> Actually they are a bit agressive. '-O2' have produced broken code for
> varius versions of GCC, and at least one version of gcc 3.x has produced
> broken code for CPUTYPE=3Dp4 (though this should be fixed now).  More
> optimizations sometimes trigger coding bugs, which lower -O levels hide.
>

Hum .. i am not an expert compiling and tweaking, i have read that the -O2 =
is
not too much agresive, thanks for the tip :-D.

I will overide the flags and compile jade in the evening, i have to go scho=
ol
now :-P, and i will tell you what happens.

Thanks.

> From make.conf(5) :
>=20
>      CFLAGS   (str) Controls the compiler setting when compiling C code.
>               Optimization levels above -O (-O2, ...) are not supported.
>=20
> In short, while higher -O levels might work, they are rarely worth all
> the problems they create.



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