On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:41:25AM -0600, Randall Stewart wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I am working on a sparc-1 (yeah I know its old but its
> what I have :-0) and have a couple of questions:
> 
> 1) It seems that since I have switched to building the
>    kernel with a -g/DEBUG option set I end up compiling
>    about 3 or 4 times until I get a success. The failed
>    attempts ususally end with a SIGBUS or some other such
>    thing (error 139 and a core). This seems to happen during
>    the ld of the kernel. I have tried playing a bit with the
>    ulimits to see if it is something like that .. but no luck
>    yet. The machine is not swapping (its got 64Meg) and the loader
>    is getting around 32+ meg... Anyone have any idea what tuneable
>    I need to tweak to get a compile every time :-0

Are you running -current or 1.5.x ?
There is a known problem with -current on older sun4c (I've verified sparc1+
and IPC, but the sparc1 may be in the same case), which lead to this behavior.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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