I got a sound card (my wife insisted on having a sound card), and am now trying to recompile the kernel to include support for it.
I've got the configuration set up, and everything appears to be correct. I run make-kpkg, and it runs until I get this: gcc: Internal compiler error: Program cc1 got fatal signal 11. This apparently occurs at random points during the run of the compile; this particular one occurred while compiling init.o. Previous errors have occurred at floppy.o, keyboard.o, pty.o. I get the same error trying to compile the kernel manually (make clean, make config, make dep, make zImage). Sometimes I get a message saying that cpp has experienced a broken output pipe. Sometimes I don't. What am I missing? I tried turning off the CPU cache, and it didn't change this behavior. I can run this inside of X and outside of X, and I get the same problem. The headers and the source are both present. If it matters, I'm running a Cyrix 6x86L P200+. Disk space available is 75MB or so; memory is 80MB. Help... Roger Franz