Re: Bug#110285: liblocale-gettext-perl: causes debconf to segfault on ia64

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

Le Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:53:18AM -0500, Branden Robinson écrivait:
> With liblocale-gettext-perl installed, debconf segfaults.
> Without it installed, debconf works fine.
> 
> This bug is apparently ia64-specific.

Hey ia64 folks, please give it a look. liblocale-gettext-perl is
an important part, it's used by several very common perl apps (adduser,
debconf, ...) and segfaults are not cool.

I can reproduce the segfault on merulo (with a locally compiled
Locale::gettext) with a simple commande like :
perl -I blib/arch -I blib/lib -MLocale::gettext -MPOSIX -e 'print gettext("hello");'

Here's a gdb backtrace :
#0  0x20000000004141b1 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6.1
#1  0x2000000000170dc0 in Perl_sv_setpv () from /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.6

But it's not very helpful either ... I can do nothing more. I'm ccing
also the perl maintainer, he may have heard of similar problems on
ia64...

Cheers,
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