On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:19 AM, billywhizz <apjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > i get the following error from gcc when i try to build v0.7.8. it goes away > if i specify the --without-snapshot flag but then when i try to run node it > gives the same error when starting up: > > ACTION v8_snapshot_run_mksnapshot > /media/storage/AJohnston/Code/node/git/node-v0.7.8/joyent-node-0fc9163/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc > pure virtual method called > terminate called without an active exception > /bin/sh: line 1: 13139 Aborted > "/media/storage/AJohnston/Code/node/git/node-v0.7.8/joyent-node-0fc9163/out/Release/mksnapshot" > --log-snapshot-positions --logfile > "/media/storage/AJohnston/Code/node/git/node-v0.7.8/joyent-node-0fc9163/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.log" > "/media/storage/AJohnston/Code/node/git/node-v0.7.8/joyent-node-0fc9163/out/Release/obj.target/v8_snapshot/geni/snapshot.cc" > > this is on fedora12/x86_64 > > do i need a newer gcc in order to build 0.7.*?
Quite probably. I suspect that you're running into this issue: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/2912 The tl;dr is that it's a -fno-strict-aliasing regression in gcc 4.4.x (and maybe 4.5.x) on x86_64.
