Re: build failure "make ...distribution" in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb6/gdb

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20110928203442.GA23977%methodlogic.net@localhost>,
 <bch%methodlogic.net@localhost> wrote:
>I've been having no good luck building userland for a few days now (not
>helped by unstable kernel, which crashes during cvs updates and renders
>checkout borked :~(  )...anyway, below is from fresh checkout:
>
>--- dependall-gnu ---
>/usr/obj/tooldir.NetBSD-5.99.56-amd64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64--netbsd/4.5.3/../../../../x86_64--netbsd/bin/ld:
>a(vi_mode.o): bad reloc symbol index (0x257a74 >= 0x8c) for offset
>0xa900000000058b00 in section `.text'
>/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb6/readline/obj/libreadline.a: could not read
>symbols: Bad value
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>*** [gdb] Error code 1
>nbmake: stopped in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb6/gdb
>1 error
>nbmake: stopped in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb6/gdb
>*** [dependall] Error code 2
>nbmake: stopped in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb6/gdb
>1 error
>nbmake: stopped in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb6/gdb

I just finished a complete build of amd64 from head with a current kernel.
How much memory do you have? Do you have a stackrrace for any of the
crashes? readline.a seems to be corrupted from one of your crashes, make
clean in there.

christos