Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3

[Georg Schwarz]

Am 07.01.2007 um 22:05 schrieb Paul Eggert:

> Georg Schwarz <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Making check in dd
> > No suffix list.
> >         make  check-TESTS
> > No suffix list.
> > Segmentation fault - core dumped
> > ...
> >
> > obviously that's less than 100% OK. Do you have any suggestions what
> > I should start to investigate?
>
> You can start by doing the checks more verbosely.  Something like  
> this:
>
> cd tests/dd
> VERBOSE=yes make check


lorenz 13% env VERBOSE=yes make check
No suffix list.
        make  check-TESTS
No suffix list.
+ dd --version
dd (coreutils) 6.7-dirty
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the  
terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp.
test_failure=0
+ echo data
+ ln dd-in.797 dd-in2.797
+ ln -s dd-in.797 dd-sym.797
+ test 0 = 1
+ dd if=dd-in.797 of=dd-out.797
Segmentation fault - core dumped
fail=1
+ cmp dd-in.797 dd-out.797
+ rm dd-out.797
+ dd -- if=dd-in.797 of=dd-out.797
Segmentation fault - core dumped
fail=1
+ cmp dd-in.797 dd-out.797
+ dd oflag=append if=dd-in.797 of=dd-out.797
Segmentation fault - core dumped
+ dd iflag=nofollow if=dd-in.797 count=0
+ dd iflag=directory if=. count=0
+ ls -u --full-time dd-in.797
old_ls=-rw-r--r-- 2 schwarz user 5 2007-01-12 19:59:07.000000000  
+0100 dd-in.797
+ sleep 1
+ dd iflag=noatime if=dd-in.797 of=dd-out.797
+ dd oflag=nolinks if=dd-in.797 of=dd-out.797
+ echo x
+ dd bs=3 ibs=10 obs=10 conv=sync
+ wc -c
outbytes=3
+ test 3 -eq 3
+ rm -f dd-in.797 dd-in2.797 dd-sym.797 dd-out.797
+ exit 1
FAIL: misc
+ dd --version
dd (coreutils) 6.7-dirty
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the  
terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp.
+ pwd
pwd=/var/tmp/coreutils-6.7-dirty/tests/dd
tmp=dd-rw.819
+ trap status=$?; cd "$pwd" && rm -rf $tmp && exit $status 0
+ trap (exit $?); exit 1 2 13 15
framework_failure=0
+ mkdir dd-rw.819
+ cd dd-rw.819
+ test 0 = 1
fail=0
+ echo abcde
Segmentation fault - core dumped
fail=1
+ cat out
+ exit 1
+ exit 1
status=1
+ cd /var/tmp/coreutils-6.7-dirty/tests/dd
+ rm -rf dd-rw.819
+ exit 1
FAIL: not-rewound
./skip-seek: configure didn't find a usable version of Perl, so can't  
run this test
SKIP: skip-seek
+ dd --version
dd (coreutils) 6.7-dirty
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the  
terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp.
+ pwd
pwd=/var/tmp/coreutils-6.7-dirty/tests/dd
tmp=skip-seek.835
+ trap status=$?; cd "$pwd" && rm -rf $tmp && exit $status 0
+ trap (exit $?); exit 1 2 13 15
framework_failure=0
+ mkdir skip-seek.835
+ cd skip-seek.835
+ test 0 = 1
fail=0
+ echo LA:3456789abcdef
Segmentation fault - core dumped
fail=1
+ cat out
+ echo LA:3456789abcdef
Segmentation fault - core dumped
fail=1
+ cat out
+ exit 1
+ exit 1
status=1
+ cd /var/tmp/coreutils-6.7-dirty/tests/dd
+ rm -rf skip-seek.835
+ exit 1
FAIL: skip-seek2
+ dd --version
dd (coreutils) 6.7-dirty
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the  
terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp.
+ pwd
pwd=/var/tmp/coreutils-6.7-dirty/tests/dd
+ echo ./unblock-sync
+ sed s,.*/,,
t0=unblock-sync.tmp
tmp=unblock-sync.tmp/849
+ trap status=$?; cd "$pwd" && chmod -R u+rwx $t0 && rm -rf $t0 &&  
exit $status 0
+ trap (exit $?); exit $? 1 2 13 15
framework_failure=0
+ mkdir -p unblock-sync.tmp/849
+ cd unblock-sync.tmp/849
+ printf 000100020003xx
+ test 0 = 1
fail=0
+ dd cbs=4 ibs=4 conv=unblock,sync
Segmentation fault - core dumped
fail=1
+ cat
+ cmp out exp
+ test 1 = 1
+ diff out exp
+ exit 1
+ exit 1
status=1
+ cd /var/tmp/coreutils-6.7-dirty/tests/dd
+ chmod -R u+rwx unblock-sync.tmp
+ rm -rf unblock-sync.tmp
+ exit 1
FAIL: unblock-sync
======================================
4 of 4 tests failed
(1 tests were not run)
Please report to address@hidden
======================================
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)



> and from that, most likely you can figure out exactly how 'dd' is
> failing, and then perhaps get into GDB or some other debugger and
> figure out what actually is causing the bug.

I'll try to compile gdb, but that's likely to become not an easy task...

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