From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 10 23:23:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1F416A400 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:23:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DDC913C481 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:23:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391861A3C1C; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:23:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 76665513AE; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:23:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:23:53 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Gavin Atkinson Message-ID: <20070310232353.GA57287@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1173567721.64488.19.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1173567721.64488.19.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Buildworld failure in libmagic on old system X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:23:54 -0000 On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 11:02:01PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been seeing a build failure on sparc64 for a while on one of my > machines, last built Thu Dec 8 13:52:22 GMT 2005 (yes, I know it's > old!), where it looks like there's some issue with which version of libc > gets used. I've been trying to upgrade this every two months or so > since then, without success, so it's time to report it! > > Full compile log at http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ga9/build-20070309.txt > > I suspect a libc issue because of the following: > > leeloo# pwd > /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libmagic > leeloo# ./mkmagic magic > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > leeloo# echo $LD_PRELOAD > LD_PRELOAD: Undefined variable. > leeloo# setenv LD_PRELOAD /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libc/libc.so.7 > leeloo# echo $LD_PRELOAD > /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libc/libc.so.7 > leeloo# ./mkmagic magic > leeloo# > > Is this something which should be fixed in the source? I'm sure setting > the OSRELDATE=0 hack to tell it the world that is installed is "really > old" may well fix it, and I'm happy to do that, I'm just wondering if > something is not being rebuilt somewhere where it should be? > > There is one Google hit with a similar problem - > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2006-June/004159.html > - which is a tinderbox failure in June 2006. I'm pretty sure I first > saw the problem before that (although I could be wrong). I also can't > seem to see any commit that would have got the tinderbox working. There is a malloc error in that code which causes it to segfault when MALLOC_OPTIONS=AJ. Not doing this is the workaround, but someone should track down and fix it. Kris