In article <l03102806be9c074166d1@[192.168.10.99]>
hockey@dialectronics.com wrote:

> ./build.sh -O /usr/obj -D /usr/NetBSD-new-build -T /usr/tools build
> 
> with variations of -j
> 
> ./build.sh -j 2 -O /usr/obj -D /usr/NetBSD-new-build -T /usr/tools build
> ./build.sh -j 8 -O /usr/obj -D /usr/NetBSD-new-build -T /usr/tools build

Does the problem also happen without -j or not?

> The most recent error occured with -j 8 and a 2.99.10 kernel, the most
> recent I could find that would reliably run.  Previously I had run all
> three -j variations with 3.99.3, none successfully.  Maybe the logs will
> have something more informative.  The message I posted was from the
> terminal.

Are you sure you have enough memory and swap on your host?
(Aren't there any kernel messages in /var/log/messages?)

It requires a bunch of memory to compile icache.c and semantics.c
which are generated under gdb/sim/ppc.
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% ls -l sim/ppc/obj.macppc/icache.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3546470 May  3 00:48 sim/ppc/obj.macppc/icache.c
% ls -l sim/ppc/obj.macppc/semantics.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2187998 May  3 00:48 sim/ppc/obj.macppc/semantics.c
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Izumi Tsutsui