Problems Building ErLang R11B

[Mikael Pettersson]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:16:52 -0700, Bruce Bailey wrote:
>While trying to build version R11B (otp_src_R11B-0.tar.gz), I encountered 
>several problems (segfaults, compile errors, etc.  see below).  Can anyone 
>suggest anyway to get past this?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Bruce
>
>**********************  Software Versions  **********************
>
>Os: Linux C126215 2.4.18-27.8.0-3 #1 Tue Jan 18 04:26:03 PST 2005 i686 i686 
>i386 GNU/Linux
>Java version: 1.4.0_03
>OpenSSL 0.9.7c 30 Sep 2003
>
>**********************  Build Errors  **********************
>
>erlc -W   +debug_info +strict_record_tests  -o../ebin gse.erl
>erl -pa ../ebin -s gs_make -s erlang halt -noshell
>make[3]: *** [gstk_generic.hrl] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
etc

That looks like an antique RedHat 8.0 kernel, which, assuming the
rest is also RH8-ish would make glibc be glibc-2.3.2 or thereabouts.

Try ./configure --disable-hipe and rebuild. If things work, then the
issue is with the (rather old) kernel and/or glibc you're running.
HiPE/x86 did work on RH8.0 at one point, but it's not something we
test on or support these days.

/Mikael