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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!204.245.3.50!news.primenet.com!soren 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 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5ea45l$id@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> X-Posted-By: soren@206.165.5.109 (soren) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35725 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.