from Paul Goyette: > I've had intermittent similar problems with NetBSD for at least three > years now. I have no idea what the problem is, though. I've > suspected some sort of memory corruption, but was never able to make > any progress in tracking it down.
It could be a corruption or bug in NetBSD. I've come to expect these things with NetBSD. This is in particular a sudden inability to build NetBSD-current from source. Until I see information about an update of base gcc, I don't plan to try any more using base gcc. I could try to build gcc-aux or gcc48 from pkgsrc and use that, if build is successful. I think I could set HOST_CC and HOST_CXX to tell the build to use that in place of base gcc. I could also try to cross-build from FreeBSD using gcc-aux from ports or from NetBSD 6.1_STABLE if that boots. Base gcc in FreeBSD through 9.x is 4.2.1 because that is the last release before gcc went to GPLv3. So there are things I can try before putting it on the back shelf. Tom
