Re: Bus error

[Thomas J. Duck]

Hi Eric,

     Thanks for your email -- the quickest response to a bug report  
ever!

     'locate libsigsegv' turns up nothing.

     If you have other tests that you would like me to run, please  
let me know.  I'm happy to help where I can.

Cheers,
Tom

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On 3-Dec-08, at 10:08 PM, Eric Blake wrote:

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> [adding bug-gnulib, as the owner of the c-stack module]
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> According to Thomas J. Duck on 12/3/2008 6:49 PM:
> >
>
> Hello Thomas,
>
> >      I have installed m4-1.4.12 on my Mac OS X 10.4 system.  'Make
> > check' results in the error below.  If there is any further  
> > information
> > you need, please let me know. --Tom
> >
> > Checking ./stackovf.test
> > Stack soft limit set to 300K
> > Failure - m4 aborted unexpectedly
> > Output from m4:
> > m4: internal error detected; please report this bug to <bug- 
> > address@hidden>:
> > Bus error
>
> Thanks for the report.  Did you build with libsigsegv installed,  
> and if
> so, which version?  I know that older versions of libsigsegv are  
> buggy on
> MacOS, although I don't have access to a Mac machine myself.  On  
> the other
> hand, if this is without libsigsegv, then that represents a bug where
> c-stack should be made more robust, if possible.
>
> - --
> Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
>
> Eric Blake             address@hidden
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Thomas J. Duck <address@hidden>

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