Infinite loop while compiling cdrtools with Gcc3.2?

paulisdead · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 510 Location: Seattle, WA

According to Douglas Adams, the easiest way to confuse a computer, is to trick it into doing the same thing over and over again. Well, my box must be really confused. I just can't seem to get cdrtools to compile, it doesn't fail, it just gets stuck in a loop. I've tried taking out all my crazy optimizations and making it just -march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe, I've even tried taking it all the way down to -march=i386 -O3 -pipe, and it still gets stuck.

Here's my specs:
Athlon Tbird 1.2@1.32 (setting back to default clock speed doesn't help)
Jetway 663/ASpro Via KT133 chipset
384MBs of PC133 RAM
SB Live!
Nvidia Geforce4 Ti4200 128MB
HP 9100i cdwriter
All on Gentoo 1.3b with GCC3.2.

If anyone's got any ideas, they'd be very appreciated. Here's what it looks like where it gets stuck.

eric.cheminot · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 47

Well, according to the recurrent warning in the output, it seems that you are facing a clock skew... hence the infinite loop (the generated files are always back the sources). Maybe you could try to del /etc/adjtime (or somthing like that cannot remember). Generally, it is not needed expect when your MB clock has a big drift when PC is powered off and, generally also, bad values are setted when installing notably if you change UTC to local time after first reboot.

Hope this can help.

-ec

paulisdead · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 510 Location: Seattle, WA

Actually, I finally got out of the loop by changing my cflags to -march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe. GToaster and all it's other dependencies built with my normal Cflags.

eric.cheminot · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 47

Well, it works now, fine! I may be wrong but i'm quite sure this is not related to optimization flags (that would be a very strange side effect... but who knows?). I rather think that when you tried to compile and got the loop, your system date was wrong or something was wrong with configure cache.

Maybe you could try again with the optimization flags you really want, i would not be surprised it works again!

-ec

paulisdead · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 510 Location: Seattle, WA

You're right it did build with all the optimizations, guess when I reset the time and date last night it fixed my problem. I wonder why cdrtools was so dependant on the date and time, since I built everything else with the wrong time... Oh well, so it goes.

RayVan · n00b Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Houston, Tx

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

GCC3 to Other Things Gentoo. cdrtools are not necessarily GUI, and certainly aren't multimedia.
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