On Jul 3, 2014, at 11:18 AM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> On 7/3/14, 7:59 AM, Geoffrey Smith wrote:
>> Hello all -
>> 
>> I have had this strange problem for a long time now and still have not been 
>> able to solve it - I am hoping for any help.
>> 
>> I have two systems very similar, and both have the same symptoms.  Both 
>> running 10.8.5, both early 2008 Mac Pro boxes.  None of my more recent 
>> machines have this problem.
>> 
>> Fink details are:
>> 
>>> Package manager version: 0.37.0
>>> Distribution version: selfupdate-, 10.8, x86_64
>>> Trees: local/main stable/main unstable/main local/injected
>>> Xcode.app: 5.1.1
>>> Xcode command-line tools: 5.1.0.0.1.1396320587
>>> Max. Fink build jobs:  1
>> 
> 
> (there is no unstable tree for 10.7 and later--configuring it results in an 
> extra no-op)

Thank - I think I knew that but somehow never took it out of my conf file.

> 
>> 
>> I have huge issues trying to build gcc - this has happened with 4.7, 4.8, 
>> and now 4.9.  The end result is a total system freeze, necessitating a hard 
>> reboot with the power button.  The boxes are still up in some fashion as the 
>> mouse still responds to motion and the box responds to pings, but there is 
>> no way to interact with the desktop and ssh just times out.
>> 
>> I can generate more output if helpful, but basically, at some point during 
>> the linking (I think) something corrupts the system and errors such as the 
>> following show up:
> 
> What's your disk free space like?  To be safe, I like to have at least 10 
> Gigs free when building a gcc4X.

I have ~200 Gig free, so I don't think that is the issue.  The strange thing is 
that I have two boxes that exhibit the same symptoms….

> 
> As a workaround, on 10.8 you can get the same version-revison of gcc49 via 
> the new binary distribution.  "sudo apt-get install gcc49" should install 
> that for you, and if you want the fink command to look at the binary 
> distribution first you can set that up via "fink configure".
> 

Thanks for this suggestion - I will try this today.


> 
> -- 
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
> My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
> 

--
Geoff Smith
Naval Research Laboratory
202.404.6324
geoffrey.sm...@nrl.navy.mil





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