From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MNzy8-0007Pm-HW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:59:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3D9AE0702; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 01:59:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.150]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4CD6E0702 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 01:59:36 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAIhIUkp8qdxr/2dsb2JhbADOcIQSBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.42,359,1243785600"; d="scan'208";a="433941193" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.220.107]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 07 Jul 2009 09:59:34 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A7AF18F7CD6 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:59:34 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8OVo+3g7d4rf for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:59:30 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.50.73] (unknown [192.168.50.73]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF3E318F7C15 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:59:30 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed... From: "W.Kenworthy" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4A527272.4050208@kutulu.org> References: <4A5239D8.2020007@gmail.com> <200907062000.02792.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4A52411E.9070706@gmail.com> <4A524BBB.1010101@kutulu.org> <4A525D37.1060803@gmail.com> <4A527272.4050208@kutulu.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home in Perth, Western Australia Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:59:29 +0800 Message-Id: <1246931969.30061.2.camel@bunyip.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c0f51e8a-b3ee-4674-b591-ca5b8aebd66b X-Archives-Hash: 370c56e59d967951c46552ffbbb2ce1a On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 17:53 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 7/6/2009 4:23 PM, Jarry wrote: > > Mike Edenfield wrote: > >> On 7/6/2009 2:23 PM, Jarry wrote: > > >>> MAKEOPTS="-j2" > > >> Can you try this again without -j2 in the make opts? The gcc build > >> process is enough of a pain to debug when you can see output > >> sequentially, running parallel makes makes it worse. > > > Now this is strange: I commented out that MAKEOPTS="-j2" in make.conf > > and gcc compilled without any complaint. I did not change anything > > else! Can't believe this. I will check it tomorrow again, with -j2 > > and without... > > I can't explain why this happens but I do know that I've seen a number > of complex builds (especially gcc/glibc) that just randomly fail when > using a parallel make. I see this effect on FreeBSD moreso than Gentoo, > but I suspect that's only a question of scale. > > --Mike > Try MAKEOPTS="-j1" - the default is still j2 if you just delete the variable. Ive also seen this a lot recently. Serialising the make process into one thread helps. BillK