Subject: Re: build problems
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Sean Davidson <davidson@zk3.dec.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/28/1997 07:06:30
Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 27 Jun 1997 18:26:24 +1000, Simon Burge
> <simonb@telstra.com.au> writes
> 
> >Previously I wrote:
> 
> >> I'm getting the following:
> >>
> >> ===> ksh
> >> sh /usr/src/bin/ksh/emacs-gen.sh /usr/src/bin/ksh/emacs.c > tmpemacs.out
> >> awk: cmd. line:17: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: internal error line 170, file: /u
> >sr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gawk/eval.c
> >> *** Error code 1
> >>
> >> Stop.
> >> *** Error code 1
> >>
> >> I've built and installed gawk, but with no effect.  At this stage, sleep
> >> is more important than line 170 of eval.c (which looked like it will
> >> give me nightmares after a _quick_ glance), but I'll look further in the
> > morning if noone else suggests anything...
> 
> >I didn't mention that this was on a pmax.
> [snip]
> 
> >I'm now starting to suspect a compiler bug (for lack of anything else to
> >suspect).  I've tried compiling with no optimisation, -O and -O2 with
> >the same results.
> 
> I can't reproduce this on a pmax (5000/240) with yesterday's sup
> kernel and today's gawk source built with -O2. rm'ing emacs.out and
> rebuilding it works fine.  I'm still using an older shared libc and
> /bin/sh, though.

This seems to be some libc compatability problem because if I put the
new libc from current in place I get this also and if I put back the
last snapshot libc it works fine.

Sean