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Segfault with grep-3.4 and pcre-8.44

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#40477: closed (Re: bug#40477: Segfault with grep-3.4 and
 pcre-8.44)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 19:21:01 +0000

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Your bug report

#40477: Segfault with grep-3.4 and pcre-8.44

which was filed against the grep package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 40477 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 40477-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40477: Segfault with grep-3.4 and pcre-8.44
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:19:57 -0700

On 4/6/20 8:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:

> Upon more investigation my problem may be to be due to libsigsegv-2.12. If I 
> keep that from being linked into grep it is fine.

This appears to be the Gnulib/libsigsegv problem that Bruno Haible fixed yesterday:

https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2020-09/msg00101.html

so I'm closing the grep bug report.

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From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Segfault with grep-3.4 and pcre-8.44
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 15:54:47 -0500

In linuxfromscratch we normally build grep without pcre using:

./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin
make

It works fine.

Later after pcre is installed users can rebuild grep with exactly the 
same instructions, but with grep-3.4, I get a segfault with

grep --help

and all other command line entries.  Adding --disable-perl-regexp 
restores grep but of course removes pcre regex capabilities.

I went back and built grep-3.3 with pcre and everything worked with the 
same pcre library as above.

I did some preliminary gdb testing and got:

Reading symbols from src/grep...
(gdb) run --help
Starting program: /build/grep/grep-3.4/src/grep --help

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x000000000041cc03 in __libc_start_main ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x000000000041cc03 in __libc_start_main ()
#1  0x000000000040715a in _start () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/start.S:120

We are using glibc-2.31 and gcc-9.2.0 if that makes a difference.

  -- Bruce Dubbs
     linuxfromscratch.org

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