cc1 - fatal signal 11 during build

Victor Vaughn (vvaughn@wizard.net)
Sun, 17 Nov 1996 03:07:49 -0500

I am trying to compile kernels for my new AMD-K5-PR100 and for my
old Intel 386-25MHz. I'll be testing out the 386 as a firewall with PPP
over a dial-up connection.

Each time I try 'make clean ; make zImage', GCC stops compiling with an
error similar to the following, usually on sys.c or module.c:

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.25/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe
-m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -c
-o sys.o sys.c
gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
make[2]: *** [sys.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.25/kernel'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.25/kernel'

I've deleted the source for 2.0.25 and loaded 2.1.10 instead. I also
reinstalled GCC from a partition holding Slackware 3.1. Compiling still
stops on the same kind of error.

I've built 2.0.25 not too long ago without fatal errors. What could be
causing this internal error?

-- 
Victor Vaughn   <vvaughn@wizard.net>