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From: Soren Ragsdale <soren@primenet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Tyan S1668 problems
Date: 17 Feb 1997 10:23:01 -0700
Organization: Primenet (602)416-7000
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X-Posted-By: soren@206.165.5.109 (soren)
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I've got a system with a Tyan Titan Pro s1668 motherboard, Intel PPro-200,
Adaptec 2940UW scsi controller, and 32MB RAM.  I'm running into problems
where I cannot install any standard distributions of software.  The
installer for Perl 5.003 (both the release and the new _26 release) has
trouble when it begins to run its 'makedepend' in the Configure script -
new makedepends keep spawning off until the swap is exhausted.  The emacs
distribution from prep.ai.mit.edu gets through the configure OK, but it
stops about 10 files into the build complaining that something wasn't
configured correctly.

This problem is completely hardware-dependant - I have a 486/100 Gateway
computer at work (which I also installed FreeBSD on in the past week) and
it works fine.  Idential procedures installing the OS, downloading the
programs, and building them were used, with very different results.

I had a similar problem with the former FreeBSD box here - it was a AMD
386/25, and I could not build gnu software on it either.  When I replaced
its motherboard with a different one (486/30) the problem went away
completely - absolutely no messing with software.

Have any ideas on where this oddness is coming from?  Please let me know.