Freeze/reboot/errors when compiling - unable to make - reproducible and not isolated

[jovval]

I am reporting failures to compile resulting in Rock64 freezing, rebooting, or producing errors.


Trials with hashcat (only available for amd64 and i386, and even then just as 3.30 in stretch) with ayunfan 0.7.9 stretch installed are below.

I fulfilled hashcat's demand for opencl-headers.
apt-get install opencl-headers
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  opencl-c-headers opencl-clhpp-headers opencl-headers

wget https://hashcat.net/files/hashcat-4.2.1.tar.gz
tar -zxf hashcat-4.2.1.tar.gz
cd hashcat-4.2.1/
make
    First effort yielded MANY errors like this one (with "Killed" and coming at the end),
gcc: internal compiler error: Killed (program as)
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-6/README.Bugs> for instructions.
src/Makefile:479: recipe for target 'obj/LzmaDec.NATIVE.STATIC.o' failed
make: *** [obj/LzmaDec.NATIVE.STATIC.o] Error 4

    Later attempt gave,
...
gcc -c -pipe -std=gnu99 -Iinclude/ -IOpenCL/ -Ideps/lzma_sdk/ -O2 -Ideps/OpenCL-Headers/ -DWITH_HWMON deps/lzma_sdk/Lzma2Dec.c -o obj/Lzma2Dec.NATIVE.STATIC.o
gcc -c -pipe -std=gnu99 -Iinclude/ -IOpenCL/ -Ideps/lzma_sdk/ -O2 -Ideps/OpenCL-Headers/ -DWITH_HWMON deps/lzma_sdk/LzmaDec.c -o obj/LzmaDec.NATIVE.STATIC.o
Write failed: Broken pipe

    The last line was a red herring. The system rebooted perhaps because of a kernel panic. I was able to reproduce the behavior several times.


    Trying to install source from github's master.zip showed the following.
unzip hashcat-master.zip
cd hashcat-master
make linux
gcc -W -Wall -pipe -I include/ -O2 -s -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -I/opt/hashcat-deps/gmp/linux32/include -D__HC_x86_32__ -DPOSIX -m32 -msse2 -c src/common.c -o obj/common.LINUX.32.o
gcc -W -Wall -pipe -I include/ -O2 -s -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -I/opt/hashcat-deps/gmp/linux64/include -D__HC_x86_64__ -DPOSIX -m64 -msse2 -c src/common.c -o obj/common.LINUX.64.o
gcc -W -Wall -pipe -I include/ -O2 -s -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -I/opt/hashcat-deps/gmp/linux64/include -D__HC_XOP__ -DPOSIX -m64 -mxop -c src/common.c -o obj/common.LINUX.XOP.o
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-m64'
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-mxop'
src/Makefile:316: recipe for target 'obj/common.LINUX.XOP.o' failed
make: *** [obj/common.LINUX.XOP.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-m64'
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-m32'
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-msse2'
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-msse2'
src/Makefile:190: recipe for target 'obj/common.LINUX.64.o' failed
make: *** [obj/common.LINUX.64.o] Error 1
src/Makefile:148: recipe for target 'obj/common.LINUX.32.o' failed
make: *** [obj/common.LINUX.32.o] Error 1


    I added jessie to my sources.list
deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

and installed gcc-4.9.
Compiling the .tar froze and rebooted the system; the .zip, produced the same errors but in a slightly different order:
CC="gcc-4.9" make linux
...
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-m64'
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-mxop'
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-m32'
src/Makefile:316: recipe for target 'obj/common.LINUX.XOP.o' failed
make: *** [obj/common.LINUX.XOP.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-m64'
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-msse2'
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-msse2'
src/Makefile:148: recipe for target 'obj/common.LINUX.32.o' failed
make: *** [obj/common.LINUX.32.o] Error 1
src/Makefile:190: recipe for target 'obj/common.LINUX.64.o' failed
make: *** [obj/common.LINUX.64.o] Error 1


    On a Raspberry Pi, I was able to compile from the same .tar without errors.
    The RPi had at the time,
uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.9.35-v7+ #1014 SMP Fri Jun 30 14:47:43 BST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux
     I have re-verified that, after a brief hang (where Rock64 reboots), RPi with a clean installation of 4.9.35-v7+ compiles hashcat 4.2.1 just fine.
     I have again searched hashcat's forums, and found no mention of the fragment "compil" aside from one hit, which does not indicate any difficulty with compiling from source.
     I deduce aarch64 to somehow be the origin of the problem, but am open to alternative explanations (and concomittant solutions).


    I had similar issues (including the reboot) when attempting to compile golang 1.11. Unlike hashcat, golang /does/ have a package suitable for my needs (golang-1.10 in backports as opposed to 1.7 in stretch) which I installed by adding to my sources.list:
deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ stretch-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ stretch-backports main contrib non-free

and by using its peculiarly placed binary,
/usr/lib/go-1.10/bin/go

My point of including golang 1.11 is simply that I anticipate further challenges with gcc, so I would like at the very least to overcome this one. Despite my attentiveness and web searches, I am as of yet, empty-handed on all counts with compiling.


Any guidance on how to surmount these freezes, reboots, and errors (and compile hashcat 4.2.1) on Rock64 would be most welcome.