Am 10.09.2011 17:04, schrieb Eike Rathke: > Hi Joost, > > On Saturday, 2011-09-10 15:00:50 +0200, Joost Andrae wrote: > >> >>After starting the build process on my Win7 64bit notebook (dual core >> >>Intel 2.8 Ghz with 8 GB memory) it quite often stopped but rebuilding >> >>went always fine (until now; I'm still compiling binfilter). I thought >> >>it might be useful to implement a watchdog process watching >> >>stderr/stdout that restarts dmake as soon as the build breaks but it >> >>needs to interpret the error thrown. >> > >> >Probably you have been hit by the well-known bug in GNU Make 3.81 that >> >lets it core-dump at times. This needs to be solved, the developers of >> >Libre Office have gained some experience with that. >> >> GNU Make 3.8.1 is installed on my machine but I thought that dmake >> is always used instead ? > > Not in the new gbuildified modules. Best to use a self-baked make 3.82, > available from http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/make/
I had some issues with that version. For me it worked best to take the 3.81 sources and apply the patch with the fix for the core dump. See http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Build_Environment_Effort/Status_And_Next_Steps at the very end of the page. Regards, Mathias
