Re: plmerge core dumps...

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> On 11 Feb 2020, at 11:46, Gregory Casamento <greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  Linking service GSspell ...
> 3022 Creating GSspell.service/Resources...
> 3023 Creating GSspell.service/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist...
> 3024Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 3025/home/travis/staging/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/Instance/service.make:141: 
> recipe for target 'GSspell.service/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist' failed
> 3026make[3]: *** [GSspell.service/Resou
> 
> -- 
> 
> I've been seeing this a lot locally and on CI.  Has there been a change which 
> is causing a segfault in plmerge?

This is where I first noticed a problem when using the new objc-2.0 ABI.
In my case David kindly let me know that the issue was that the bfd linker was 
failing to link the base additions library, causing a recursive exception 
initializing NSObject.
On my system it didn't *l,ook* like this was the case (clang -v reported that 
the normal, system linker was being used),  but rebuklding after removing all 
copies of the bfd linker from my system did solve the problem.