From: jefftep@cs.utexas.edu (Jeffrey Grills)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: HELP! -- Internal Compiler Error
Date: 17 Aug 1992 15:31:02 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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In article <1992Aug17.153437.25068@cs.tu-berlin.de> mackpei@cs.tu-berlin.de (Xue-Jun Pei) writes:
>
>I got the following error while trying to recompile 0.96c with GCC
>2.2.2:
>
>Usage: date [-q] [[MMDDYY]hhmm[ss]]
>touch include/linux/config.h
>gcc -E -traditional boot/bootsect.S -o boot/bootsect.s
>as86 -0 -a -o boot/bootsect.o boot/bootsect.s
>ld86 -0 -s -o boot/bootsect boot/bootsect.o
>gcc -E -traditional boot/setup.S -o boot/setup.s
>as86 -0 -a -o boot/setup.o boot/setup.s
>ld86 -0 -s -o boot/setup boot/setup.o
>gcc -Wall -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o init/main.o init/main.c
>gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
>make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
>
>Sorry for it has been mentioned before, I couldn't find it.
>
>Any help would be appreciated!
>
>


This problem is not unique to you.  I have been attempting to solve it for about
a week now, and am quite close to pitching linux in the trash because of it.
If I can't develop software under this base, I have no interest in taking up the
HD space related.  (flame off).  Any ways, this is what I have done, attempting
to solve the problem:

Info:
  .  Sometimes, very rarely, the compile actually works.  However, on something
     as large as the kernel, it won't ever make it all the way through.
  .  I have actually gotten a memory test and a cache test program to compile,
     and neither of them have detected any errors.
  .  Nothing has ever caused this signal, except cc1.
  .  I'm running 0.97 no patches, cause I can't recompile the kernel, cause
     gcc doesn't work.
  .  Intel 386 33, 64k external cache, 5mb ram, 7mb swap, tseng 4000 video,
     maxtor 7213a 203mb HD, AMI bios dated 5/5/91.

Attempts at fixing it:
  .  I have swapped ram around/in/out of my motherboard to no avail.
  .  I have disabled my external cache, to no avail.
  .  I have tried the following root images: 0.96 0.97 0.97.1 (in the process of)
     to no avail.
  .  I have used the 0.96 boot and the 0.97 boot.  I'd use the 0.97.1 boot, but
     of course, I can't compile it.
  .  I have downloaded and installed gcc at least 8 different times.  This time,
     I'm still hashing out problems with install.2.x (yes, I know there is a
     new version.)  I knew there were errors with the original one before it
     was released, but I had to leave town and couldn't mail about them.
  .  I have put my HD and controller into a friends machine, to no avail.
  .  I have tried gcc 2.2.2c and 2.2.2d to no avail.
  .  I have tried compiling HelloWorld, to no avail.
  .  I have twiddled with the wait states on my machine, to no avail.
  .  I have asked on the IRC in #linux for help.  No one there has a solution.
  .  I have posted to this newsgroup, and had a few other people tell me that
     they too have this problem, and would like it solved, but noone has
     ever told me a solution.


Attempts to be made:
  .  Finish re-installing the new release of gcc.
  .  Find some kind soul to let me have a bootimage of 0.97pl1 to try.
  .  Mail somebody, anybody about this, maybe including the mailing lists.
  .  Obviously, I cannot recompile the compiler myself to try.  I know someone
     that claims to have compiled gcc for linux under a sparc 2, and I will 
     to do that myself on my local sparcs.
  .  Give up.

If anybody at all could help in any way, please let me know.  I'd really like
to help build linux into a great operating system, but now it is impossible.

-- 
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jeff grills              | "Sometimes i see myself so clearly, because I
jefftep@cs.utexas.edu    |   see nothing at all.  This feeling of emptiness
Undergrad Lab, UT Austin |   flees my soul, leaving even less behind."  -me
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