Re: reiserfs on 2.4.1,2.4.2-pre (with null bytes patch) breaks mozilla compile

2001-02-19 Thread Frank de Lange
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:18:46PM -0800, David wrote: > > Well, I run glibc-2.2.1 as well, so that might be one of the factors > > contributing to this. Then again, glibc-2.2.1 with ext2 does not cause any > > problems whatsoever with mozilla. So it could be that reiserfs + glibc-2.2.1 is > > a b

Re: reiserfs on 2.4.1,2.4.2-pre (with null bytes patch) breaks mozilla compile

2001-02-18 Thread Frank de Lange
> Minor nit, but I'd rather clear it up now. Which distribution you run > doesn't matter for debugging. What does matter is that we've got known > problems with a given compiler, and that compiler goes by a few different > flavors with the same version number. Since there are known problems, if >

Re: reiserfs on 2.4.1,2.4.2-pre (with null bytes patch) breaks mozilla compile

2001-02-17 Thread David
> Well, I run glibc-2.2.1 as well, so that might be one of the factors > contributing to this. Then again, glibc-2.2.1 with ext2 does not cause any > problems whatsoever with mozilla. So it could be that reiserfs + glibc-2.2.1 is > a bad combination, question remains which of these two is the culp

Re: reiserfs on 2.4.1,2.4.2-pre (with null bytes patch) breaks mozilla compile

2001-02-17 Thread Frank de Lange
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 05:47:49PM -0800, David wrote: > I can say "me too" for this. I thought it was perhaps glibc or binutils > tho. I only have reiserfs systems now so I don't have a basis for > comparison. > > However I -can- say that I didn't experience this until I put glibc > 2.2.1 o

Re: reiserfs on 2.4.1,2.4.2-pre (with null bytes patch) breaks mozilla compile

2001-02-17 Thread David
I can say "me too" for this. I thought it was perhaps glibc or binutils tho. I only have reiserfs systems now so I don't have a basis for comparison. However I -can- say that I didn't experience this until I put glibc 2.2.1 on my systems. I do use an "approved" gcc, stock 2.95.2. I wouldn'

Re: reiserfs on 2.4.1,2.4.2-pre (with null bytes patch) breaks mozilla compile

2001-02-17 Thread Frank de Lange
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 01:57:15AM +0100, Frank de Lange wrote: > I will retry this with 'all warnings and bells and whistles' turned on in > reiserfs (on 2.4.1-ac18), and see if anything out of the ordinary is logged. I > somehow doubt it, since repeated forced reiserfsck's have turned up nothing

Re: reiserfs on 2.4.1,2.4.2-pre (with null bytes patch) breaks mozilla compile

2001-02-17 Thread Frank de Lange
> At least the patch didn't make it worse. Would anyone care to comment on > how the elf-dynstr-gc option changes the file access patterns for the > compile? It does not change the file access patterns, it adds an extra step. A separate binary (dist/bin/elf-dynstr-gc, a convoluted version of s

Re: reiserfs on 2.4.1,2.4.2-pre (with null bytes patch) breaks mozilla compile

2001-02-17 Thread Frank de Lange
> That's not good. Which compiler did you use to compile the kernel? This > sounds lame, but reiserfs exercises the cpu/mem more than ext2, so we hit > bad ram more often. If we run out of other things to try, please run a > memory tester. I use 'good old' gcc 2.95.2: gcc -v: gcc version 2.95.2

reiserfs on 2.4.1,2.4.2-pre (with null bytes patch) breaks mozilla compile

2001-02-17 Thread Frank de Lange
Hi'all, Well, subject says it all... When I try to compile mozilla (CVS version) with the '--enable-elf-dynstr-gc' option, the compile fails with a segfault: ../../dist/bin/elf-dynstr-gc ../../dist/lib/components/libsample.so make[2]: *** [install] Segmentation fault (core dumped) compiling the