Problem building python in virtual machine running centos

[Paul Melis]

Paul Boddie wrote:
> On 25 Apr, 03:05, Alexandre Gillet <gil... at scripps.edu> wrote:
> 
>>I am trying to build python-2.4.5 on Centos 5.1, which is a virtual
>>machine running with xen.
>>I am not able to build python. The compilation crash with the following:
>>gcc -pthread -c  -DNDEBUG -g  -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I.
>>-I./Include  -DPy_BUILD_CORE -o Objects/unicodeobject.o
>>Objects/unicodeobject.c
>>In file included from ./Include/Python.h:76,
>>                 from Objects/unicodeobject.c:39:
>>./Include/object.h:228: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
>>Please submit a full bug report,
>>with preprocessed source if appropriate.
>>See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> for instructions.
>>The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
>>
>>Any suggestion of what am I doing wrong?
> 
> 
> You say that the bug is not reproducible, so that means that you can

"The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem."

This line is printed by GCC itself, not the OP

Paul

> sometimes compile Python, or does the crash always happen when
> compiling some file (not necessarily the one mentioned above)? I think
> I've only ever seen a reproducible gcc crash once, and that had
> something to do with a C++ source file which I then split into two and
> was able to compile as these two separate parts. You might want to
> check the gcc version (gcc -v) and to look at bug fixes in any later
> versions. Generally, if you get an internal error in gcc, you aren't
> doing anything wrong yourself.
> 
> Paul