On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 08:55:59AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Well, I recently built xemacs without any trouble.  I'd suspect you've
> got either a piece of bad memory, or a bad spot on your hard drive right
> under one of the gcc executables.
> 
> On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Tony Hernandez wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone run accross this ? It seems like all my builds of anything
> > crash atleast 15 times ..  compiling xemacs was a pain in my ass  cause
> > I had to keep restarting  the compile  make ; make ; make ; make ...
> > wtf ? This happened before in 1.3.2  and then quit happening ....   now
> > im in 1.4 and this started happening again ..... I fear this is not
> > NetBSD's fault for any reason and that it may be hardware .. any ideas
> > folks ?

On a machine that I helped a friend build recently, this was fixed by
disabling the external CPU cache. (via BIOS settings)

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