Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken 4.8.0 tests segfault on OpenBSD 5.2 AMD64

[Christian Kellermann]

Hi John,

* John Long <address@hidden> [121205 19:16]:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 12:20:04PM -0500, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 17:23:09 +0000 John Long <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi guys. This is weird because I had no problem building Chicken 4.8.0 on
> > > OpenBSD MIPS recently. I am getting a segfault (core dumped) in the make
> > > check. It seems to be dying pretty far along in the tests. It's 5,000 
> > > lines
> > > of output. Do you want to see all of it? Here's a small snipped towards 
> > > the
> > > end:

This has been happening on and off for me as well as others. The
reason for this is currently being debugged by felix and myself
which has been stalled by me slacking off for weeks now.

I recommend to ignore it for now as this code path is not taken by
default, i.e. garbage collection of weak symbols is *off* by default,
so your programs are not at risk. Sorry for the inconveniences.

Cheers,

Christian

P.S.: Hopefully the BOSS understands....your little robot...

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