RE: problems building a crosscompiler

[David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>]

>Curios was, that I had to make the crosscompiler twice (without "make
>clean" in beetween), before the make process finished without errors.
>While the first run, there always (I did make and make clean sometimes
>to reproduce the error) was an error: 
>gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
> 
>Has anyone an idea?

  It happens every now and again.  Most people believe it's a sign of
faulty memory or perhaps a dodgy hard drive read/write messing up your
swap space.  I used to get it quite a lot under cygwin, on two different
PCs, but it doesn't seem to happen so much these days, with newer versions
of the cygwin dll, so I'm not 100% sure that there may not be two different
problems going on.

  In any case, retrying the make usually works; sometimes it will just get
to the same point over and over and fail every time, in which case shutting
down and restarting your computer will usually get it to work next time.
I suspect some kind of race condition or uninitialized memory problem may
also exist but nobody's ever been able to track it down since it usually
disappears the moment you run make under the debugger.  So it isn't worth
worrying about very much.

      DaveK
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