Re: ./configure Make sources runs, but compiled make segfaults - is this a bug?

[Mark Galeck]

Yes it's OK thank you.  I will just use 3.81, which does work.  /bin/sh is 
present, there are no changes of the kind I was discussing in my other 
question.  
since Make 3.81 does recompile and work perfectly, but 4.1 segfaults 
immediately, yes there must be something funny going on.  But I can't spend 
time on it.  


      From: Tim Murphy <address@hidden>
 To: Mark Galeck <address@hidden> 
Cc: Paul D. Smith <address@hidden>; "address@hidden" <address@hidden> 
 Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 12:03 PM
 Subject: Re: ./configure Make sources runs, but compiled make segfaults - is 
this a bug?
   
Well, it could be a bug with your setup or with configure. With no
more information and no idea of how to reproduce your setup how can
anyone tell?  e.g. imagine that configure runs some test that would
work on any standard setup but doesn't on yours for some possibly
trivial reason (e.g. missing /bin/sh)? That could certainly lead to a
crash bug without it being make's fault.  But we can't tell from the
results presented.

Regards,

Tim

On 13 October 2015 at 21:48, Mark Galeck <address@hidden> wrote:
> thank you all, I appreciate all your help
>
> I was just basically interested if I should report this.  I thought, the
> "configure" script is responsible (among other things) to check if the *nix
> system is legitimate enough so that the compiled program will run.
>
> If make immediately segfaulting, means the *nix system is messed up (despite
> that configure succeeds), then I will just use 3.81 there, it does compile
> and run.
>
> I don't really need to fix that *nix system, it is just a temporary thing.
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Tim Murphy <address@hidden>
> To: Paul D. Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Mark Galeck <address@hidden>; "address@hidden"
> <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 11:04 AM
> Subject: Re: ./configure Make sources runs, but compiled make segfaults - is
> this a bug?
>
> Mark,
>
> I guess that maybe in your chroot you don't have gdb or strace or
> valgrind or whatever?
>
> Does your build of make crash when run outside the chroot?  If it
> does then you might be able to get it into a more normal situation.
> Dan's idea about using ldd and checking the help are good too as they
> might indicate where things are going wrong without needing any
> special tools.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> On 13 October 2015 at 20:54, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 17:16 +0000, Mark Galeck wrote:
>>> No any make invocation of recompiled 4.1 (without any of my changes)
>>> immediately segfaults, including make check.
>>
>> OK, well that's pretty clearly an issue with your local environment
>> then.  You'll have to debug it (Tim's suggestion of using GDB is your
>> best bet) to determine what's wrong.
>
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