Actually I have several Alpha's, and one I have to reload due to this, so I will give this a try on the other machine and will let you know if I have good success with it. If this all works, then I agree with you that we want to avoid, or at least note the problem with -O2 as I have been using that when making software on my Intel machines for a long time, so just assumed it was OK to do the same on the Alpha.. > Get rid of -O2 in /etc/make.conf; comment out the CFLAGS line. You > should NEVER, EVER build _anything_ with -O2 on an alpha. The > compiler is very fragile and has been known to do odd things when > compiling -O2. I'm starting to think that any optimizations other > than -O should probably be disabled in the compiler to keep people > from blowing their feet off like you've just done. > > I'd suggest re-loading the machine from the cd at this point, or > building a world on another machine which has a good world & doing a > make installworld via NFS mounts. > > Drew > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin > Duke University Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 > --- Howard Leadmon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.abs.net ABSnet Internet Services - Phone: 410-361-8160 - FAX: 410-361-8162 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
