make fails during stage 1 of installation

xso · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 33

Hi there,

My installation fails during step 11 (scripts/bootstrap.sh) of the installation process. It fails when compiling (make) ncurses, with a segmentation fault. Error message is 'Function src_compile, Line 39, Exit code 2. Make failed'. All previous packages were successfully compiled (gettext, sed, etc).

Does anyone know how to go through that, except by going straight to stage 2 ;-)

Thanks in advance and cheers,

Xavier

bonsaikitten · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 6:34 pm Post subject:

ncurses can be quite difficult to compile...

if you can save an error log, bug 26726 could use some precise reports.

xso · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 33

Thanks! In the meantime, I realized that segmentation faults are often due to hardware problems (i.e.: memory). I ran a memtest and indeed found a faulty module. I'm retrying it right now and see if it works before filling in a bug report.

bonsaikitten · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 7:01 pm Post subject:

Gentoo is an excellent hardware tester

I just hope the rest of your machine works and you can reproduce the error so that the bug can finally be hunted down and eliminated

xso · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 33