i386-pc-solaris2.5.1: recent snapshots can't build emacs-20.2

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Thu Jul 16 00:32:00 GMT 1998


  In message < 87sok3zs6t.fsf@eng.ascend.com >you write:
  > Hi,
  > 
  > I have just confirmed that current sources as of about 980714-08h24
  > still exhibit the problem I reported three weeks ago.  For all I know,
  > this could be a problem with emacs, solaris5.5.1, or some tool in my
  > build environment.
  > |   Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
  > |   0x0 in ?? ()
  > |   (gdb) bt
  > |   #0  0x0 in ?? ()
  > |   #1  0x812f72c in __do_global_ctors_aux ()
  > |   #2  0x812f775 in _init ()
  > |   (gdb)
  > |
  > | Any suggestions?
  > |
  > | BTW, if I had more disk space (or if I'd been omitting symbols :-)
  > | I'd be keeping around lots more snapshots and would have been able to
  > | determine (conveniently) more precisely when gcc stopped being able to
  > | build emacs-20.2.
You might try disassembling __do_global_ctors_aux to see if it looks
reasonable.  Or you might compile all the libgcc code & crtstuff
with "-g" so that you can debug __do_global_ctors_aux.

jeff



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