From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc fails and then succeeds - definitely a problem?
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:39:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120223213900.67cce5ba@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw2VdRGB=h6i+feNKQT9nSzQoiT9KWGSpNqVM+GDAv=N7w@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:17:54 -0800
Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> The gcc update just failed to compile on one of my systems with a
> segfault, but then succeeded after trying again even though I didn't
> change anything. Does that indicate a hardware problem for sure?
> Should I run memtester? Any other tests to run? Nothing in dmesg.
>
> - Grant
>
Nah, most likely it's a -j<something bigger than 1> issue
Parallel builds are not deterministic so if the Makefile allows a race
condition to develop it's pot luck whether you'll be hit with it or not
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-23 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-23 19:17 [gentoo-user] gcc fails and then succeeds - definitely a problem? Grant
2012-02-23 19:23 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-23 19:40 ` Grant
2012-02-23 21:11 ` Grant
2012-02-23 21:18 ` Mark Knecht
2012-02-23 21:27 ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-23 19:25 ` [gentoo-user] " Heorhi Valakhanovich
2012-02-23 19:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2012-02-23 19:36 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-23 19:46 ` Mark Knecht
2012-02-23 21:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-23 19:39 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2012-02-23 19:47 ` Grant
2012-02-23 20:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-23 21:00 ` Grant
2012-02-23 22:05 ` Michael Mol
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