Haven't been able to make world in about a year

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-02-21 15:46, Kristian Vaaf <vaaf at broadpark.no> wrote:
> At 12:39 21.02.2006, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
>>Kristian Vaaf wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know what's wrong. But all my makes error out. I've tried
>>> over and over again. And sent about a dozen e-mails to this list.
>>>
>>> http://www.home.no/hedhnta/result.txt
>>
>> This is my supposition.  There have been many messages to this list
>> which clearly say that advanced gcc options (like advanced
>> optmisations) are a bad idea for CFLAGS defaults in make.conf
>> because they can prevent world/kernel from rebuilding properly.  So,
>> playing spot-the-difference between your compile line which fails,
>> and my last one which succeeded...
>>
>> Yours:
>> cc -E -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I. -I/usr/src/bin/csh
>> -I/usr/src/bin/csh/../../contrib/tcsh -D_PATH_TCSHELL='"/bin/csh"'...
>> Mine:
>> cc -E -O -pipe -I. -I/usr/src/bin/csh
>> -I/usr/src/bin/csh/../../contrib/tcsh -D_PATH_TCSHELL='"/bin/csh"'...
>>
>> You'll see that your has -O2 and -fno-strict-aliasing while mine has
>> just -O. So the first thing I would do is to try fixing CFLAGS in
>> make.conf to get rid of "-fno-strict-aliasing" and change "-O2" to
>> "-O".  I can't say whether one, both or neither is actually wrong,
>> but mine worked and yours didn't, so at least one of them is a good
>> potential source for the problem.
>>
>> Let us know if it helps.  Someone out there undoubdetdly knows which
>> options are safe to add here, and may even be able to say where they
>> are documented.
>>
>> --Alex
>>
>> PS You neglected to mention which version of FreeBSD you were running.
>> My compile line is from 5.4.
>
> Thank you Alex for a very interesting reply.
>
> My bad for not mentioning FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE: Wed Sep 21 01:34:15 CEST 2005

Have you, by any chance, set CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS in the environment of
your root user?

If yes, then it's a bad idea.  Unset both of these and try rebuilding
from a clean checkout and a clean /usr/obj object tree.