Re: Debian patch for LilyPond 1.3.119

[Anthony Fok]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 10:15:18PM +0000, Christophe Rhodes wrote:
> > messages it continues on merrily.  Strange. But then this computer I am
> > using is really acting up too... segfaulting and kernel oopsing/panicking
> > erratically that I simply couldn't finish the build without being stopped at
> > random places.  So I ended up using my brother's computer to build
> > lilypond1.3_1.3.119-1.  Besides, his computer is so much faster.  :-)
> 
> My experience on building lily is that the current debian unstable g++
> produces a binary that segfaults; debian stable g++ compiles it fine,
> which leads me to suspect that g++ is at fault, rather than lilypond
> itself. Since I barely read C++, let alone write it, that should be
> treated only as a suspicion. This was reproduceable across different
> computers, incidentally, so it's probably not just a random glitch.

I guess I wasn't clear enough.  My computer (this newer one anyway) was
segfaulting/oopsing/panicking and hanging up on its own especially during
time of much disk activity, e.g. when I try to open Netscape while opening a
large mailbox in mutt while compiling lilypond1.3.  Fortunately, my
brother's computer didn't show any of these problem and compiled it quickly
without errors.  The compiled lilypond_1.3.119 binary seems fine, otherwise
the documentation wouldn't have been built, and there wouldn't have been a
*.deb produced.  :-)

I am suspecting either the kernel doesn't jive well with this CPU or
motherboard, or (I hope not) faulty RAM or hard drive... not sure what is
wrong...

Cheers,

Anthony

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