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Date:      Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:26:49 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Cc:        gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@NUXI.com
Subject:   Re: EGCS and Alpha builds
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904111926110.74823-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <14093.49624.806904.69287I@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>

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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:

> At Thu,  8 Apr 1999 16:37:21 -0400 (EDT),
> Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hidetoshi Shimokawa writes:
> >  > At Thu, 08 Apr 1999 10:28:04 +0900,
> >  > Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
> >  > > 
> >  > > Hi,
> >  > > 
> >  > > I have finally finished make world on alpha with egcs.
> >  > > Here is a fix.
> >  > 
> >  > I have nasty problem with "make", which sometimes gets signal 11.
> >  > There may be some problem with libc.so. A workaround is to add
> >  > 'NOSHARED=YES' to /usr/src/usr.bin/make/Makefile.
> >  > 
> >  > I don't know why...
> > 
> > For what its worth, I've just survived 2 'make buildworld && make
> > installworld; reboot' ... cycles without make crashing.  I've also
> > build a kernel from a clean compile directory (and checked in a quick
> > fix for fp_emulate.c to get it building again under egcs). This is on
> > a 500Mhz 21264 (I'm working on support for the xp1000).
> 
> Good to hear it.
> 
> > Is there anything in particular you need to do to cause make to crash?
> 
> It turns out due to over clocking...
> After change the clock from 666MHz to normal 600MHz, I can finish the
> make world without crash.
> (I changed SCSI card, removed video card and installed other PCI card
> at the same time but they must not be the reason of the problem.)
> 
> Sorry to bother you folks.
> 
> Anyway, I think egcs on alpha fair enough now.

I have done a few -j8 buildworlds now without problem too.

> 
> I'm going to make world/kernel with '-Os -mcpu=ev56'.

That might be interesting..

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
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