Re: libgtop compilation problem

[Franklin Belew <frb umr edu>]

On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 07:08:20PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Today, I tried to compile libgtop on my Slackware 3.6 system. While
> running 'make', I got the following error:
> 
> >-------SNIP-------<
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -D_IN_LIBGTOP -D_GNU_SOURCE -DGLIBTOP_NAMES -I../.. -I../.. -I../../sysdeps/linux -I../../include -I../../intl -I/usr/local/include -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H -I/usr/local/lib/gnome-libs/include -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -Wall -Wno-unused -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -DGTOPLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBGTOP_VERSION=\"0.99.3\" -DLIBGTOP_SERVER_VERSION=\"3\" -DLIBGTOP_SERVER=\"/usr/local/bin/libgtop_server\" -I/usr/local/include -Wall -W -I/usr/local/include -Wall -Wno-unused -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wp,-MD,.deps/cpu.pp -c -fPIC -DPIC cpu.c -o cpu.lo
> cpu.c: In function `glibtop_get_cpu_s':
> cpu.c:100: fixed or forbidden register was spilled.
> This may be due to a compiler bug or to impossible asm
> statements or clauses.
> make[3]: *** [cpu.lo] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnomecvs/libgtop/sysdeps/linux'
> >-------SNIP-------<
> 
> Anyone have a clue on how I could solve this problem?
> 
Yeah, you cannot compile libgtop on an smp system with gcc-2.7.2.3.
I'm not sure why this isn't in the configure, or even the readme, since it has shown up many times.

Frank Belew aka Myth