Re: Bug#598609: kfocus: FTBFS on mips/mipsel (finding the maximum length of command line arguments... -> SIGBUS/SIGSEGV)

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 03:02:09PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 14:59:25 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 
> > See
> > https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=kfocus;ver=1.0.2-17.1%2Bb1;arch=mips;stamp=1284442351
> > and
> > https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=kfocus;ver=1.0.2-17.1%2Bb1;arch=mipsel;stamp=1284618012
> > The configure script aborts with a signal in the command line length
> > check, reproducible on gabrielli.
> > 
> kprof has the same issue,
> https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=kprof;ver=1.4.3-11%2Bb1;arch=mips;stamp=1284441919
> 

The issue is actually that the configure script checks for the command
line length, but never stops increasing its size, so the script crashes
when the swap is exhausted and no memory can't be allocated anymore.

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