general ports problem

[Garrett Cooper]

On Dec 27, 2008, at 14:59, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au>  
wrote:

> On 2008-Dec-27 22:27:05 +0100, cwt <marshc187 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> i usually have some trouble building world on amd64, but always
>> somewhere in gnu tree. this week it didn't fail and seemed
>> to build and install ok, but apparently...
>
> I have been running amd64 on 6, 7 and 8 for several years and haven't
> bumped into any consistent problems building world.  Can you provide
> more details of your hardware and the troubles you have?  It is  
> possible
> you have a hardware issue.
>
> -- 
> Peter

Could just be bad media.
-Garrett