is there anything unique about your userland? ive not seen this before 
(or at least ive never _noticed_ it.. :) 


On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Ken Wellsch wrote:

> While trying to refresh a Dec 5k/150 box from a current build
> circa July 29th, I found I was unable to get past building
> libc.  The summary is as follows, it appears that some of
> the object files created are sparse (ls -l shows megabytes,
> ls -s shows just a handful of blocks), and when "ar" tries
> to build libc.a I run out of space.  I didn't see anything
> like this on vax or sparc, both also build at the same time
> back at the end of July.  So I don't know whether this is
> just a pmax issue, or just my own issue based upon my unique
> userland.  Cheers,  -- Ken Wellsch
>