Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:23:53 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Buildworld failure in libmagic on old system Message-ID: <20070310232353.GA57287@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1173567721.64488.19.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <1173567721.64488.19.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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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
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