Re: lynx-dev LYMainLoop.c -- gcc signal 11, egcs-1.1.2

[brian j pardy]

On Sat, Oct 16, 1999, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > 
> > Is anyone else having any problems compiling LYMainLoop.c in dev.12? 
> >  
> > gcc  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -I. -I.. 
> > -Ichrtrans -I./chrtrans -I.. -I../src -I../WWW/Library/Implementation   -O2 
> > -DLINUX  -c ./LYMainLoop.c 
> > gcc: Internal compiler error: program cpp got fatal signal 11 
> > make[1]: *** [LYMainLoop.o] Error 1 
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pk/lynx/2.8.3dev.12/src' 
> > make: *** [all] Error 2 
> > address@hidden ~/lynx/2.8.3dev.12]$ gcc -v 
> > Reading specs from 
> > /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/egcs-2.91.66/specs 
> > gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release) 
> > address@hidden ~/lynx/2.8.3dev.12]$ uname -a 
> > Linux odin 2.2.12 #3 Thu Sep 2 06:56:14 EDT 1999 i586 unknown 
[...]
> > I can include my cfg_defs.h or lynx_cfg.h if anyone is curious.  I 
> > doubt this will be debuggable, but figured it might be a data point 
> > worth something. 
> 
> The only way I can see to debug it is to chop pieces out of LYMainLoop.c
> until the problem goes away - to see what's causing the problem.  I saw
> some comment recently that indicated egcs has some problems with code that
> compiles fine with the gcc versions.

Any suggestions on which functions to start with?  Probably the main
loop.  Also, I just noticed in what I have up there -- it says "cpp"
got signal 11, not gcc.  Maybe that's what usually comes up, I don't
have any old compile failures to compare to.  

I'll try that.


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