Today (2 reboots down the road), the very same cmdline in the very same place (although untarred again into a different directory) goes flawlessly. I am sorry to not have applied the sig11 FAQ techniques on the spot during the original submission.
(I'm talking about http://www.tldp.org/FAQ/sig11/html/index.html ) What mislead me was that originally I tried the compilation several times (with cleaning the whole tree, or just on the spot), and it ALWAYS stopped on the same file. But the FAQ explains this - I should have forced the gcc tools and the sources out of the cache before the recompilation, which I haven't done. The reason that I got back to it is that another bug (Bug #181153, which I now CC to as well) raised a strong suspicion of the maintainer that I might have a hardware problem, so I got back to revising all the bugs filed from this machine. Coincidence of 2 bugs with a strong possibility of a hardware problem is very suspicious. I'll subject the machine to severe checks and will report if any new stuff surfaces. Right now it has 6 days uptime w/o any problems since the last reboot (the reboot was from the OOPS in Bug #181153). /me LARTing myself heavily on the head Sorry for having wasted your time in the (most likely) case it's a hardware problem on my end. Vassilii
