From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: I ran as root "rpmbuild --rebuild kernel-2.4.18-17.8.0.src.rpm". Seemed to enter countless loops thru the build process until after 47 minutes (on an athlon 1800+!) it failed with a segmentation fault. (see below) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.rpmbuild --rebuild kernel-2.4.18-17.8.0.src.rpm 2. 3. Actual Results: this is the end of the rpmbuild output: i2o_pci.c:392:1: warning: no newline at end of file i2o_block.c:510: warning: `i2ob_flush' defined but not used rcpci45.c:105: warning: `RCinit' declared `static' but never defined ns83820.c:1710: warning: `ns83820_probe_phy' defined but not used aironet4500_core.c: In function `awc_receive_packet': aironet4500_core.c:1936: internal error: Segmentation fault Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions. make[2]: *** [aironet4500_core.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_net] Error 2 make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.69123 (%build) Expected Results: build actually complete Additional info: This is a new box I built, and the 2nd kernel build I attempted. kernel-2.4.18-14 in /usr/src/linux-2.4 also failed, even tho I followed the instructions in the RH Customization Guide.
If they are failing at different random points its almost certainly hardware. gcc happens to also be a very good detector of bad RAM chips. Test the system with memtest86
Assuming this was bad hardware. If there was a reproduceable GCC bug, we would not be able to build the rpms ourselves.