On Fri 01 Sep 2017 at 23:14:13 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > Anthony Youngman <[email protected]> writes:
> > Nothing to do with the distro - as I said I daren't upgrade. Firstly, > > gentoo has dropped KDE4 which means major UI changes which will give > > my wife panic attacks (slight exaggeration, but not much). (Plus a big > > learning curve for me.) And secondly my hardware is not quite > > trustworthy - gcc crashes a lot which I think is down to the CPU > > somewhere :-( Dunno why it's only gcc that seems to suffer (remember, > > the distro is gentoo :-) > > Gcc's internal data structures tend to be quite prone to corruption. > I've had flaky memory that had no problems surviving days of elaborate > memory pattern tests but did not survive 20 minutes of kernel > compilation. Change the memory for known good memory, and the kernel > compiled fine. No idea what Gcc does that memory test programs fail to > account for. http://www.tldp.org/FAQ/sig11/html/index.html This page is ancient but I don't think much has changed, except that I no longer find it necessary to compile my own kernels for Debian. Decades ago, I would buy (rather, have bought for me) new modules to increase the memory in my acquired PCs; maybe that helped in staying error-free. I don't do much compiling now, and certainly not linux kernels. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
