On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, David Bogen wrote:

> Has anyone here successfully compiled ssh-1.2.26 for NetBSD 1.4.1?
> 
> Recently, I installed NetBSD 1.4.1 on a MacIIci, 8MB RAM, 500MB HD.  So 
> far, I've installed the base, kern, etc, misc, text, secr, and comp 
> tarballs along with a few packages (joe, libg++, libslang, lynx, perl5, 
> etc.).
> 
> Now, I'm trying to compile ssh from source and having a bit of trouble 
> doing so.  The ssh source seems to contain a secondary package to handle 
> some of the math (gmp-2.0.2-ssh-2) which is compiled before ssh.  When I 
> issue the 'make' command to actually compile the source, the compiler 
> quits with a message:
> 
> gcc:  Internal compiler error:  program cc1 got fatal signal 11
> 
> Initially, I couldn't even run the configure script without a seg fault.  
> However, installing the libg++ package allowed me to run the configure 
> script from start-to-finish.  Occasionally, after issuing the 'make' 
> command, the compiler will core dump in such a way as to actually log me 
> out of my session.  So far, I've tried wiping out the config files and 
> re-running the configure script, rm'ing the whole ssh dist. dir and then 
> unpacking a fresh copy, and trying to figure out if I'm missing any other 
> libs.

I'm seeing a similar behavior on an i386 system running -current. The
present suspicion is that I've (and probably you've) got bad memory.

Try removing and re-seating all of the memory SIMMs (obviously with the
power off).

Take care,

Bill