[gentoo-user] glibc-2.33-r1 crashes out at the start before building.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Gentoo.

Would somebody help me here, please.

When I try to emerge glibc-2.33-r1, the very first phase of the build
crashes out with:

 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -pipe -march=native   -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed  glibc-test.c   -o glibc-test
 * Checking that IA32 emulation is enabled in the running kernel ...
/usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.33-r1.ebuild: line 608:   199 Segmentation fault      "${T}/check-ia32-emulation.elf32"
[ !! ]
 * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.33-r1::gentoo failed (pretend phase):
 *   CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION must be enabled in the kernel to compile a multilib glibc.
 *
 * Call stack:
 *              ebuild.sh, line 127:  Called pkg_pretend
 *   glibc-2.33-r1.ebuild, line 721:  Called sanity_prechecks
 *   glibc-2.33-r1.ebuild, line 670:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *                      [[ $STAT -eq 0 ]] || die "CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION must be enabled in the kernel to compile a multilib glibc."
 *
 * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=sys-libs/glibc-2.33-r1::gentoo'`,
 * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=sys-libs/glibc-2.33-r1::gentoo'`.
 * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.33-r1/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.33-r1/temp/die.env'.
 * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.33-r1/empty'
 * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.33-r1/work/glibc-2.33'

>>> Failed to emerge sys-libs/glibc-2.33-r1, Log file:

>>>  '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.33-r1/temp/build.log'

What is clearly happening is that the C Compiler is crashing out with a
segfault.  I actually have CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION in my kernel config.

I've tried this with both GCC-10.3.0 and GCC-9.3.0 with the same results
on both.

What is going wrong? (Horrible thought - maybe my RAM is failing.)

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).