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Date:      Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:20:26 +0100
From:      Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mozilla and 4.2-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20001217152026.A21118@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20001217150650.B19311@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>; from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 03:06:50PM %2B0100
References:  <976986477.3a3ba16db730c@webmail.harmonic.co.il> <20001217051120.A20812@citusc.usc.edu> <20001217150650.B19311@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>

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On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 03:06:50PM +0100, Szilveszter Adam wrote:
> 
> However, sometime in the middle of November I did build again. The build
> went through with no problems, but the resulting binary segfaulted on
> start. At that time there was some speculation going on -current@ wrt bugs
> after changing the .crtbegin and friends to stock GCC instead of our own,
> so I assumed it could be just that. Later the issue of linking against
> -lgcc_r came to light, so I thought this might be related. And after all,
> this is -CURRENT, so things might break for a while. But the situation has
> not improved since. The binary builds seemingly just fine, but segfaults on
> startup. A gdb(1) trace shows that the segfault is in the internal
> functions of nspr, so it is possibly not a C++ problem. Once the stack
> trace went as deep as libc_r, however. Since I did not build with debugging
> symbols, I did not investigate further.
> 
> Since the Mozilla team has dropped all FreeBSD tinderboxes from their
> cluster (although they have added OpenBSD 2.5 back) they are probably
> totally unaware of the problems.

Sorry to reply to my own post, but after perusing the archives, it seems
that the relevant changes (and the first problems) happened on or about
October 28th. So it was earlier than I had thought. But the build surely
worked in the middle of October.

-- 
Regards:

Szilveszter ADAM
Szeged University
Szeged Hungary


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