The following reply was made to PR pkg/29185; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
To: Richard Braun <syn@sceen.net>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/29185
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 13:18:56 +0100 (CET)

 On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Richard Braun wrote:
 > I applied the patch correctly this time. With 2.95, the build failed with
 > the same error as before. With 3.0, gcc-c and gcc-c++ were built, and
 > chat/centericq was compiled and installed successfully, though it lasted
 > quite some time because of the lack of memory on this box (an Ultra1 with
 > 64 MB of RAM). Could this lack of memory be the cause of the internal
 > compiler error with gcc 2.95 ? There is no message about out of memory
 > error in dmesg for me. Anyway, thanks for the help :-).
 
 It's expected to take some time to get gcc 3.0, that's unfortunate but 
 can't be changed easily. About the crash of gcc 2.95, I can at best guess 
 what's happening, but if you want to try it, you could set some 
 process limits higher (see e.g. the csh "limit" command), and then see 
 what happens. I'd expect gcc to print that it's running out of memory 
 though, instead of aborting with an internal compiler error.
 
 FWIW, I've committed the change to require gcc 3.0 on sparc64 to the 
 centericq package, and closed the PR.
 
 
   - Hubert
 
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