From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 17 6:20:30 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 06:20:28 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (sol.cc.u-szeged.hu [160.114.8.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC1337B400 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 06:20:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id PAA03719; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:20:26 +0100 (MET) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 147efq-0005Ys-00 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:20:26 +0100 Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:20:26 +0100 From: Szilveszter Adam To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mozilla and 4.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <20001217152026.A21118@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: Szilveszter Adam , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <976986477.3a3ba16db730c@webmail.harmonic.co.il> <20001217051120.A20812@citusc.usc.edu> <20001217150650.B19311@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message