Hi Thibaut:
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Thibaut Paumard
<mlotpot.news@free.fr> wrote:
Hi,
I have a build failure on mpis (segfault during test suite):
https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=yorick&ver=2.1.06%2Bdfsg-1&arch=mips&stamp=1271731275&file=log
relocate/bin/yorick -batch debian/check.i
Begin Yorick parser test...
[...]
Test catch function...
make: *** [check] Segmentation fault
Since I am not a DD, I can't access the developer-only porterbox.
Would someone be so kind as to grant me access on his machine or
investigate the failure on his own?
Best regards, Thibaut.
I don't know if anyone's been able to get you access to a mips box,
but I've been able to reproduce the problem on my system.
I believe it may be related to the lack of an FPU on the buildd
machine.
In fact, I have been able to come up with a simple testcase that
causes
yorick to fail with a segmentation fault, both on the version in sid
as well as the version currently in etch.
My simple test is to start yorick up interactively, and enter:
5.0 / 0.0
at the prompt. On a mips (or mipsel) box without an FPU,
this causes a segmentation fault. With an FPU, it catches
a SIGFPE and allows me to enter debug mode.
I don't know the configuration of the mips buildd machines,
but I suspect the ones that yorick has been built on in the past
have had FPUs, and the one that it was just built on did not.