From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 23 19:50:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C404016A402 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:50:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (vjofn-pt.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::5e5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C6A213C46A for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:50:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com ([208.45.246.58]) (authenticated bits=0) by vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m1NJoKGD031232; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:50:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (localhost.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [127.0.0.1]) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m1NJoIjT014436; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:50:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: (from tbohml@localhost) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6/Submit) id m1NJoI3d014434; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:50:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from tbohml) From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" Message-Id: <200802231950.m1NJoI3d014434@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> To: fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net (Mel) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:50:18 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200802232041.50283.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: Unable to compile anything from ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:50:21 -0000 > > This clearly points at a compiler bug, with the VIA cpu, but since > world/kernel build cleanly and anything else bugs out quite early, I would > suspect an optimization bug. > This may have nothing to do with it, but little story... We used to buy whiteboxed machines, and as a test we would build world and compile perl. One time world was fine, perl failed, and would always seem to fail in the same spot. The company replaced every part and narrowed it down to the power supply. Once they changed that out, perl compiled fine. The next box had the same problems, perl stopped compiling in the same place, and found out they re-used the power supply. Changed it out, perl compiled. We convinced them to throw away the power supply (I'm sure someone else ended up with it). May be nothing of the sort, but just wanted to relay a weird experience we ran into. Tuc/TBOH