Re: core dump while building 1997-09-25 on NetBSD-i386

[Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>]

Sean Doran <smd@ebone.net> writes:
> 
> : sean.ebone.net ; uname -a
> NetBSD sean.ebone.net 1.2G NetBSD 1.2G (EBONE) #0: Thu Oct  2 19:25:59 CEST 1997     smd@sean.ebone.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/EBONE i386
> 
> I did two things.
> ...

Thank you for the report. Contains all details one needs to know to track
things down.

> Firstly, I had to create the src/locale directory
> manually, to avoid this:
> 
> if test -d locale; then rm -rf locale; fi
> mkdir locale
> (cd gettext/po && make && make install datadir=../.. localedir='$(datadir)/locale' INSTALL_DATA=ln) || (rm -rf locale ; exit 1)
> installing en.gmo as ../../locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/clisp.mo
> installing de.gmo as ../../locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/clisp.mo
> installing fr.gmo as ../../locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/clisp.mo
> installing de.gmo as ../../locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/clisp.mo
> ln: ../../locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/clisp.mo: File exists
> *** Error code 1

It tries to install the german catalog twice. I already saw this on
FreeBSD 2.2. It's a bug in your /bin/sh, most easily reproduced like this:

      The following /bin/sh commands

      unset LINGUAS
      ALL_LINGUAS="en de fr es"
      NEW_LINGUAS=
      for lang in ${LINGUAS=$ALL_LINGUAS}; do
        case "$ALL_LINGUAS" in
          *$lang*) NEW_LINGUAS="$NEW_LINGUAS $lang" ;;
        esac
      done
      echo $NEW_LINGUAS

      print        en de fr de fr es
      instead of   en de fr es


> ;; Loading file defseq.lsp ...
> ;; Loading of file defseq.lsp is finished.
> ;; Loading file backquot.lsp ...
> ;; Loading of file backquot.lsp is finished.
> ;; Loading file defmacro.lsp ...
> ;; Loading of file defmacro.lsp is finished.
> ;; Loading file macros1.lsp ...
> ;; Loading of file macros1.lsp is finished.
> ;; Loading file macros2.lsp ...
> ;; Loading of file macros2.lsp is finished.
> ;; Loading file defs1.lsp ...
> ;; Loading of file defs1.lsp is finished.
> ;; Loading file places.lsp ...Segmentation fault - core dumped
> *** Error code 139

This looks like a problem with generational GC. (I thought NetBSD's
support of mmap, mprotect etc. was functional now.) Try adding
-DNO_GENERATIONAL_GC to the CFLAGS, rm *.o and recompile. If that
doesn't help, try it first with -DSAFETY=3, then with -DSAFEFY=2,
and so on until -DSAFETY=0.

Bruno