Re: please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

[Sven Luther <sven@powerlinux.fr>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:00:29AM +0200, xavier grave wrote:
> Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 13:28 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit :
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:25:32PM +0200, xavier grave wrote:
> > > Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 11:34 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit :
> > > > Hi, ...
> > > > 
> > > > I ask for volunteers to help investigate the bug 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have a debian unstable 32 bits (dual 1GHz G4) here at work, but no
> > > time for tests, I can create you an account on it if you want.
> > > What else do you need ? Do you want me to debootstrap some distributio
> 
> > We have tested it on a powerbook and a mpc8349e-mitx board, but it seems
> > they don't believe in me or something, so what is really needed is an
> > independent test and confirmation.
> > 
> > Could you  do :
> > 
> >   apt-get build-dep linux-2.6
> >   apt-get source linux-2.6
> >   cd linux-2.6-2.6.22
> >   dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -B
> 
> It worked here without PB. Here are some infos :
> ipnnarval:~/test_bug/linux-2.6-2.6.22# dpkg -l | grep gcc
> ii  gcc                              4:4.1.2-3                  The GNU
> C compiler
> ii  gcc-2.95                         1:2.95.4-27                The GNU
> C compiler
> ii  gcc-3.2                          1:3.2.3-9                  The GNU
> C compiler
> ii  gcc-3.2-base                     1:3.2.3-9                  The GNU
> Compiler Collection (base package)
> ii  gcc-3.3                          1:3.3.6-15                 The GNU
> C compiler
> ii  gcc-3.3-base                     1:3.3.6-15                 The GNU
> Compiler Collection (base package)
> ii  gcc-3.4                          3.4.6-6                    The GNU
> C compiler
> ii  gcc-3.4-base                     3.4.6-6                    The GNU
> Compiler Collection (base package)
> ii  gcc-4.0                          4.0.3-7                    The GNU
> C compiler
> ii  gcc-4.0-base                     4.0.3-7                    The GNU
> Compiler Collection (base package)
> ii  gcc-4.0-locales                  4.0.3-8                    The GNU
> C compiler (native language support files)
> ii  gcc-4.1                          4.1.2-15                   The GNU
> C compiler
> ii  gcc-4.1-base                     4.1.2-15                   The GNU
> Compiler Collection (base package)
> ii  gcc-4.2-base                     4.2.1-4                    The GNU
> Compiler Collection (base package)
> ii  libgcc1                          1:4.2.1-4                  GCC
> support library
> 
> Do you want me to do more tests ?

Nope, apparently it worked for 2.6.22, but the problem was with 2.6.21.
Maybe you could try a build with 2.6.21, if it is still available.

Friendly,

Sven Luther