Bug#101579: patch for seg faults in configure on IA-64
On 9 Jul 2001, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:
>
> > On 9 Jul 2001, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> >
> > > > Is this problem IA-64 specific or a problem with gcc-2.96? I tried to
> > > > build tetex-bin with gcc-3.0 on i386 and it built without problems.
> > >
> > > I believe it is ia64 specific... or at least 64-bit-cpu specific.
> >
> > It can't be 64-bit-cpu specific because there are no problems on alpha.
> > I'm currently wondering where the problem is: As far as I can see there's
> > no problem: The check whether putenv uses malloc should always fail on
> > Linux - that's why I do currently not understand why the build fails on
> > ia64 because of this
>
> The build fails because the test program seg faults instead of completing,
> causing configure to fail. Whether putenv uses malloc or not, the program
> which tests for this feature needs to be able to run to completion. Without
> the #include's in question, it seg faults.
Let me try to understand:
gcc doesn't fail to link with an "undefined reference" error but instead
the resulting program segfaults?
If that's the case I'll reassign the bug to gcc.
> Bdale
cu
Adrian
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