Re: gcc complier cranky? help!

[Ken Cline]

I'm still a novice at building unix apps but I'm willing to
make some wags...

Could you post more about:
   1. the gcc compilation error

   2. your swarm "environment", ie
        - what version of swarm?
        - which distribution: binary or source?
        - do you have an older (working?) 
            version of swarm?
        - did you have any problems building any 
            of the "needed software"?

   3. the seg fault, does it give any other
        error or does it just seg fault?

   4. any compiler warnings you get

   5. what type of machine are you running
        linux on?  Does it only run linux?


My apologies for just posting a lot of questions but I have
no clue why you could compile after "a random number of
tries".  To me that's more puzzling than not compiling at
all.  (Random core dumps, on the other hand, are something
I'm a little more familiar with; how it pains me to admit
that!)

Ken.

PS: Perhaps there is a correlation between when the
compilation works and some exogenous event (eg phase of the
moon, solar flares, planetary alignment)? Just trying to
cheer you up!


On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Nasty Ace wrote:

> hi!  
> 
> i'm using the gcc compiler in redhat linux for objective-c.  
> 
> now the problem is that the compiler seems to be temperamental.  has
> anyone else faced this problem before?  
> 
> when compiling a program, i will run into an error which halts the
> compilation.  
> 
> but if i simply try again, after a random number of tries, it works.
> and all this without me having to change the program at all.
> 
> and in running the executable (when it compiles) that is returned, the
> program gets segmentation faults in different points of executions
> which change from execution to execution.
> 
> this is very frustrating, and makes debugging a totally wild
> experience.
> 
> anyone else faced this problem before?  or knows why this might be so?
> 
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