The 'brad' tinderbox is doing a parallel build (-j2 or -j4 depending on if its doing one or two tinderboxes). Occasionally the build dies similar to this: gcc -o prvrsion.o -c -pipe -ansi -Wall -pthread -O2 -fPIC -UDEBUG - DMOZILLA_CLIENT=1 -DNDEBUG=1 -DXP_UNIX=1 -D_POSIX_SOURCE=1 -D_BSD_SOURCE=1 - D_SVID_SOURCE=1 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL_FILE_LOCKING=1 -DLINUX=1 - Dlinux=1 -Di386=1 -DHAVE_LCHOWN=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -D_REENTRANT=1 - DFORCE_PR_LOG -D_PR_PTHREADS -UHAVE_CVAR_BUILT_ON_SEM -D_NSPR_BUILD_ - I/mnt/3/tinderbox/Linux_2.4.18-pre3_Clobber/tinderbox-obj/dist/include/nspr - I/mnt/3/tinderbox/Linux_2.4.18-pre3_Clobber/mozilla/nsprpub/pr/include - I/mnt/3/tinderbox/Linux_2.4.18- pre3_Clobber/mozilla/nsprpub/pr/include/private - I. /mnt/3/tinderbox/Linux_2.4.18-pre3_Clobber/mozilla/nsprpub/pr/src/prvrsion.c rm -f libnspr4.a /usr/bin/ar cr libnspr4.a ./prvrsion.o io/./prfdcach.o io/./prmwait.o io/./prmapopt.o io/./priometh.o io/./pripv6.o io/./prlayer.o io/./prlog.o io/./prmmap.o io/./prpolevt.o io/./prprf.o io/./prscanf.o io/./prstdio.o threads/./prcmon.o threads/./prrwlock.o threads/./prtpd.o linking/./prlink.o malloc/./prmem.o md/./prosdep.o memory/./prshm.o memory/./prshma.o memory/./prseg.o misc/./pralarm.o misc/./pratom.o misc/./prcountr.o misc/./prdtoa.o misc/./prenv.o misc/./prerr.o misc/./prerror.o misc/./prerrortable.o misc/./prinit.o misc/./prinrval.o misc/./pripc.o misc/./prlog2.o misc/./prlong.o misc/./prnetdb.o misc/./prolock.o misc/./prrng.o misc/./prsystem.o misc/./prthinfo.o misc/./prtpool.o misc/./prtrace.o misc/./prtime.o malloc/./prmalloc.o pthreads/./ptsynch.o pthreads/./ptio.o pthreads/./ptthread.o pthreads/./ptmisc.o md/unix/./unix.o md/unix/./unix_errors.o md/unix/./uxproces.o md/unix/./uxrng.o md/unix/./uxshm.o md/unix/./uxwrap.o md/unix/./linux.o md/unix/./os_Linux_x86.o ranlib libnspr4.a rm -f libnspr4.so gcc -shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,libnspr4.so -o libnspr4.so ./prvrsion.o io/./prfdcach.o io/./prmwait.o io/./prmapopt.o io/./priometh.o io/./pripv6.o io/./prlayer.o io/./prlog.o io/./prmmap.o io/./prpolevt.o io/./prprf.o io/./prscanf.o io/./prstdio.o threads/./prcmon.o threads/./prrwlock.o threads/./prtpd.o linking/./prlink.o malloc/./prmem.o md/./prosdep.o memory/./prshm.o memory/./prshma.o memory/./prseg.o misc/./pralarm.o misc/./pratom.o misc/./prcountr.o misc/./prdtoa.o misc/./prenv.o misc/./prerr.o misc/./prerror.o misc/./prerrortable.o misc/./prinit.o misc/./prinrval.o misc/./pripc.o misc/./prlog2.o misc/./prlong.o misc/./prnetdb.o misc/./prolock.o misc/./prrng.o misc/./prsystem.o misc/./prthinfo.o misc/./prtpool.o misc/./prtrace.o misc/./prtime.o malloc/./prmalloc.o pthreads/./ptsynch.o pthreads/./ptio.o pthreads/./ptthread.o pthreads/./ptmisc.o md/unix/./unix.o md/unix/./unix_errors.o md/unix/./uxproces.o md/unix/./uxrng.o md/unix/./uxshm.o md/unix/./uxwrap.o md/unix/./linux.o md/un ix/./os_Linux_x86.o -lpthread -ldl -lc pthreads/./ptthread.o: file not recognized: File truncated collect2: ld returned 1 exit status NEXT ERROR make[5]: *** [libnspr4.so] Error 1

I believe this is a known problem and Chris has already wrote a bug about it. If the saving from doing a parallel build in NSPR is small, I suggest we set -j1 when the Mozilla client build recurses into the nsprpub directory.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123423 ***