Re: awk segfault on make menuconfig to build kernel

["David De Graff" <debian@platformglobal.com>]

Thanks, Elizabeth.

That theory makes quite a bit of sense, particularly since I compiled
postgresql without using .deb packaging several weeks ago. Unfortunately I
have little clue as to how to sort through /usr/lib for what might be the
offending libary. The one that you mentioned is older than the machine
installation, so it's most likely part of the base install.

I thought that by recompiling awk from source with the current set of
libraries I might resolve such an issue, but no luck. I just did that (going
from debian source to debian package and installing that), and the same
error returns when I do make menuconfig.

Will dig through and see what I can come up with. Wiping the drive and
starting over is beginning to look attractive...

Best,

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Barham" <soggytrousers@yahoo.com>
To: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 1:11 AM
Subject: Re: awk segfault on make menuconfig to build kernel


> "David De Graff" <debian@platformglobal.com> writes:
>
> > Well, the conclusion that this ran fine with kernel-source-2.4.18
> > was wrong.  It gives a similar error but then continues on to the
> > initial ncurses-based config screen.
>
> A booger of a problem for me was when seemingly simple scripts were
> seg faulting. It turned out that I had compiled a newer version of
> libstdc++ way-back-when and left it in /usr/local/lib . After the
> upgrade to Woody, applications in the distribution were trying to use
> it, and were causing the seg fault.
>
> Removing the shared library in /usr/local/lib remedied the problem.
>
> Elizabeth