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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:41:55 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Callum M. Duncan" <callum@bebox.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recent STABLE build killed compiler?
Message-ID:  <20020313224155.A20808@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020313215116.B7433@bebox.net>; from callum@bebox.net on Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:51:16PM -0500
References:  <20020313215116.B7433@bebox.net>

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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:51:16PM -0500, Callum M. Duncan wrote:
> It appears that a recent build of STABLE killed my ability to
> compile things. :-(

One of the gcc object files must have become corrupted during
compilation.  Your best bet is to get a new copy of gcc onto this
machine from a backup, or from a new install snapshot.

I don't think there have been any gcc changes in -stable lately, so it
doesn't seem like this is a generic problem and it shouldn't recur.
It might have been caused by accidentally doing something on the
system which caused it to corrupt the object file while compiling
(e.g. ^C at an inopportune moment), marginal hardware (single bit
twiddled somewhere critical by a bad RAM chip, flaky cabling to your
HD, improperly shielded hardware being interfered with by electrical
noise, etc), some obscure disk corruption bug, cosmic rays twiddling
your memory, etc :)

Kris

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