[jkohen@tough.com] libc/2099: Error compiling glibc-2.2.2 on Linux kernel 2.4.1.

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>]

Hi libc developers,

This looks like a compiler error.  Anything we can do to workaround
it?

Andreas

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• Subject: Topics

Topics:
   libc/2099: Error compiling glibc-2.2.2 on Linux kernel 2.4.1.

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• To: libc-gnats at gnu dot org, gnats-admin at gnu dot org
• Subject: libc/2099: Error compiling glibc-2.2.2 on Linux kernel 2.4.1.
• From: jkohen at tough dot com
• Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 01:35:02 -0500

>Number:         2099
>Category:       libc
>Synopsis:       Can't compile glibc-2.2.2.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    libc-gnats
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   unknown
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 19 01:35:02 -0500 2001
>Cases:          
>Originator:     Javier Kohen
>Release:        libc-2.2.2
>Organization:
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>Environment:
Host type: i586-pc-linux-gnu
System: Linux jkohen 2.4.1 #3 jue feb 1 16:54:10 ART 2001 i586 unknown
Architecture: i586
Working glibc-2.2.1

Addons: linuxthreads

Build CC: gcc
Compiler version: 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
Kernel headers: 2.4.1
Symbol versioning: yes
Build static: yes
Build shared: yes
Build pic-default: no
Build profile: no
Build omitfp: yes
Build bounded: no
Build static-nss: no
Stdio: libio

>Description:
Can't compile glibc-2.2.2 with my current setup. Make dies with the following message:
gcc ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/getdents64.c -c -O2 -Wall -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -g      -I../include -I. -I/mnt/store/tmp/glibc/dirent -I.. -I../libio  -I/mnt/store/tmp/glibc -I../sysdeps/i386/elf -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386 -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/pthread -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/i386 -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386 -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux -I../sysdeps/gnu -I../sysdeps/unix/common -I../sysdeps/unix/mman -I../sysdeps/unix/inet -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/i386 -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv -I../sysdeps/unix/i386/i586 -I../sysdeps/unix/i386 -I../sysdeps/unix -I../sysdeps/posix -I../sysdeps/i386/i586 -I../sysdeps/i386/i486 -I../sysdeps/i386/fpu -I../sysdeps/i386 -I../sysdeps/wordsize-32 -I../sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96 -I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64 -I../sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 -I../sysdeps/ieee754 -I../sysdeps/generic/elf -I../sysdeps/generic   -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include ../include/libc-symbols.h     -o /mnt/store/tmp/glibc/dirent/getdents64.o
In file included from ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/getdents64.c:22:
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getdents.c: In function `__getdents64':
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getdents.c:123: Invalid `asm' statement:
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getdents.c:123: fixed or forbidden register 2 (cx) was spilled for class CREG.
make[2]: *** [/mnt/store/tmp/glibc/dirent/getdents64.o] Error 1
make[2]: Saliendo directorio `/usr/src/glibc-2.2.2/dirent'
make[1]: *** [dirent/subdir_lib] Error 2
make[1]: Saliendo directorio `/usr/src/glibc-2.2.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2

>How-To-Repeat:
make

>Fix:

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