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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc fails and then succeeds - definitely a problem?
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:37:53
Message-Id: CA+czFiDqQmadcJ6rEeHH3tobmev5aqR7D9yqedFT6SQz-D4AgA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc fails and then succeeds - definitely a problem? by Mark Knecht
1 On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> The gcc update just failed to compile on one of my systems with a
4 >> segfault, but then succeeded after trying again even though I didn't
5 >> change anything.  Does that indicate a hardware problem for sure?
6 >> Should I run memtester?  Any other tests to run?  Nothing in dmesg.
7 >>
8 >> - Grant
9 >>
10 >
11 > Might be.....might be nothing. Maybe a stray neutrino hit your
12 > processor at just the wrong instant. ;-)
13 >
14 > More likely i my mind is some little corner condition in the software
15 > running on your system. I've had the same thing happen many times
16 > actually, and actually a few more times since I started playing with
17 > your /etc/make.conf -j/-l values which push the system a little
18 > harder.
19
20 Whenever I get build failures with the load-adaptive MAKEOPTS and
21 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, I check the build log to see if it's relatively
22 obvious that something was depended upon before it was built. If so, I
23 file a bug.
24
25 Happens every month or so, for me.
26
27 --
28 :wq

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Re: [gentoo-user] gcc fails and then succeeds - definitely a problem? Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>