Building 1.9.1 on Debian Lenny - gcc issue

Ruby
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Hello

While building ruby 1.9.1 on a Debian Lenny box with gcc4.3 (the
default) compiling parse.c might take several minutes on decent
hardware.

This problem happens on multiple x86 and x86_64 boxes for me but does
not happen on Debian gcc maintainer’s boxes.

gcc 4.2 works fine for me.

Anybody else sees this problem?

Thanks

Michal

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On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Michal S. [email protected]
wrote:

Anybody else sees this problem?

Thanks

Michal

I just built 1.9.1 successfully with gcc 4.3 on openSUSE 11.1 (64-bit
machine). I haven’t done much with Lenny recently, although I will
probably download it when it’s release and build a virtual machine
with it.

–
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

I’ve never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.

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2009/2/5 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [email protected]:

gcc 4.2 works fine for me.
machine). I haven’t done much with Lenny recently, although I will
probably download it when it’s release and build a virtual machine
with it.

It’s not that it does not build, it’s just that it compiles that
particular file for very long and causes a particular pattern appear
on graphical system monitors that normally appears when something
locks up in a tight loop.

Thanks

Michal

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Hi,

At Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:01:00 +0900,
Michal S. wrote in [ruby-talk:326944]:

While building ruby 1.9.1 on a Debian Lenny box with gcc4.3 (the
default) compiling parse.c might take several minutes on decent
hardware.

Use optflags=-O3 instead of default -O2.