make buildworld causes "internal compiler error"

[Brian Candler]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:23:23AM -0400, bob self wrote:
> Why might this be happening???? I updated all the ports from source 
> yesterday. That worked fine. Now I'm trying to go to beta 5 but after a 
> long time
> compiling I get this message. I'm now running 6.0 beta 4 and as far as I 
> know there are no problems except this.
...
> /usr/src/gnu/lib/libstdc++/../../../contrib/libstdc++/src/io-inst.cc:35:
> /usr/src/gnu/lib/libstdc++/../../../contrib/libstdc++/include/bits/basic_string.tcc:236: 
> internal compiler error: Segmentation f
> ault: 11

If you start the whole process again, does it stop at exactly the same point
with exactly the same error message?

If not then you probably have a hardware problem, brought on by overheating
as a long compile cycle runs. See http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ for a very
detailled explanation.

Regards,

Brian.