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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!darwin.sura.net!nntp.msstate.edu!sun1.mcsr.olemiss.edu!cctony From: cctony@sun1.mcsr.olemiss.edu (Tony Reynolds) Subject: Mysterious Compiler Lock-Ups Message-ID: <1992Aug11.142410.13342@ra.msstate.edu> Sender: news@ra.msstate.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: sun1.mcsr.olemiss.edu Organization: Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 14:24:10 GMT Lines: 40 Here's the rough breakdown of the story: I was going to work on the Trident chipset driver for X386-1.2E, so I found some more disk space and grabbed all the sources. After unpacking and applying the patches, I ran make and everything started to compile fine. Too bad it didn't finish, though. It died just as it was compiling XStrKeysym.c in Xlib. It dies *every time* it tries to compile this particular file. I can move the file around in the list of sources in the Imakefile, all to no avail. When I say, ``it died,'' I mean the entire computer locked up. Eventually, it rebooted on its own. I have tried every stupid combination of tricks to get this to work. I have tried manipulating the set-up parameters of the Opti chipset that's in the machine, and I've tried the two kernel bugfixes. On the other hand, if I change to mit/lib/X and type make , then it will compile and not lock up the machine. I have no clue as to the reason this dies. I can rebuild most other things at will: I've remade several kernels, EMACS 18.58, some printer utilities, so I can't see it being a case of operator headspace. My configuration: 486/33, Opti Chipset (Local Bus, but nothing in the slot) 8MB RAM 300 MB Micropolis HD 160 MB CDC/Seagate HD Trident VGA card Nothing un-generic about this thing. So, thanks in advance for any thoughts you might have about my problem. I'm gonna save this article and use it as the basis for a BUGNFIX... even though there's no fix as of yet. -- Tony Reynolds Have you hugged cctony@sun1.mcsr.olemiss.edu Cray Network Intern your Washburn today? (601)232-7206