More build problems on x86_64

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:20 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> I'm getting the following error building octave on x86_64:
> 
> g++ -c  -fPIC -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc 
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -Wall -W -Wshadow -O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> -fexceptions -m64 -mtune=nocona -D_GNU_SOURCE Array-s.cc -o pic/Array-s.o
> g++: Internal error: Killed (program cc1plus)
> Please submit a full bug report.
> See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> for instructions.
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:141815: Warning: partial line at end of file ignored
> 
> Originally, this happened on development and I filed a bug report
> thinking this was a compiler problem. I got the following response to my
> bug:
> ------- Additional Comments From jakub at redhat.com 2005-07-05 17:27 EST
> -------
> That means either that you or the kernel killed the compiler.
> That does not mean there is a compiler bug.
> A compiler bug would be if on reasonably large source the compiler ate
> excessive amount of memory and OOM killer killed it.
> So the question is: 1) how much physical memory and swap do you have
> 2) run that command again and watch in top how much memory it is using
> 
> After receiving this message, I tried building octave on FC4, and got
> the same error on the same source file. The last time I built octave on
> FC4 there were no problems. I don't really have any way of further
> debugging this. Any ideas what's going on here?
> 

OOM killer got it.

swap wasn't mounting after I upgraded from FC3 to FC4 on the build
server.

now fixed.

thanks,
-sv