GNU bug report logs - #23911
Cat broken pipe segmentation fault when building Guile

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
To: "Stewart\, Adam James" <ajstewart <at> anl.gov>
Cc: "23911-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <23911 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#23911: Cat broken pipe segmentation fault when building Guile
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:11:30 +0200

On Wed 13 Jul 2016 22:45, "Stewart, Adam James" <ajstewart <at> anl.gov> writes:

> I finally have success! I think the problem was that I was building
> guile, gettext, and libunistring with my own libiconv. When I stopped
> building with libiconv and just used the system version, everything
> worked. The build passes make check and make installcheck now.
>
> I'm not sure if there's a way for guile to detect whether or not
> libiconv is built properly. It would be nice if configure crashed with
> a useful error message instead of this core dump. But I'm satisfied
> now. Thanks for your help!

Yeah what a mess!  We have historically had problems making sure that
libunistring was compiled with iconv support, but I didn't hear about
this particular one.  Strange.  I guess I will close this one though :)

Cheers,

Andy

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.