Failure in make check in glibc-2.2.1

[David Ronis]

I built and did a make check on 2 i686's (one is a 1-processor sony
laptop and the other a 2-processor, no-name pc).  Both are running
linux-2.4.0 and have glibc-2.2 installed.  The build worked on both
boxes.  However, make check fails on the laptop:


Here's what the log shows:

GCONV_PATH=../iconvdata LC_ALL=C LD_PRELOAD=vismod3.so  ../elf/ld-linux.so.2 
--library-path 
..:../math:.:../dlfcn:../nss:../nis:../rt:../resolv:../crypt:../linuxthreads 
./vismain  > vismain.out
Timed out: killed the child process
make[1]: *** [vismain.out] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ronis/Project/notar/glibc-2.2.1/elf'
make: *** [elf/tests] Error 2

and vismain.out contains:

`.protected' seems to be handled correctly, good!


I configured both machines using

 ./configure  --prefix=/usr --enable-add-ons=linuxthreads

and CFLAGS was set to

-O3 -march=i686 -malign-jumps=3 -malign-loops=3 -malign-functions=3
 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -funroll-loops

[ BTW it turns out that if you want your programs that use glibc to
  have an aligned stack, you have to specify the preferred alignment
  when you build glibc.  This is a performance win on 686's and should
  be mentioned in the FAQ or INSTALL files
]

The only difference on the two machines is that the one that fails
used gcc-2.95.2 to build, while the other used gcc version 2.97
20010108 (experimental).

Is this a multple-cpu issue, and if so, is it safe to install?

David