Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:06:45 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsdp@davenulle.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Smarteiffel is marked broken but is not (maybe!) Message-ID: <47154405.3030106@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20071017000758.3ff8cf1f@roxette.lamaiziere.net> References: <20071014223933.27730098@roxette.lamaiziere.net> <4712B1D4.4000108@FreeBSD.org> <20071016221808.43b7f702@roxette.lamaiziere.net> <47151EA4.80605@FreeBSD.org> <20071017000758.3ff8cf1f@roxette.lamaiziere.net>
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Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Le Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:27:16 +0200, > Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> : > >>>>> lang/smarteiffel is marked "BROKEN= does not install" on FreeBSD >>>>>> = 7 but it builds and installs fine, and runs fine too on >>>>> 7.0-PRERELEASE/i386 >>>> Check the error log on http://pointyhat.freebsd.org then try to >>>> determine why you are not seeing that error on your system. >>> In the pointyhat report (I found it this morming, but >>> can't find it now), the SmartEiffel's installation program crashs >>> with "Eiffel program crashs at runtime". >>> >>> That's all, it can be a compiler problem or a bug into the >>> installation program. So I don't know. >>> >>> Just to test, I've setup a tinderbox on my PC (7.0/i386) and >>> SmartEiffel builds fine. >> OK, someone will have to dig deeper then to understand the cause. > > I compiled the install program with full assertions and it crashs with > a run-time stack dump. Looking the code it seems related to the > memory management by SmartEiffel (it is not good because there is a > garbage collector). So may be it is broken. > > I will check it with FreeBSD 6.2 and another C compiler and try to get > more informations. Try building it "normally" but with MALLOC_OPTIONS=AJ. This is enabled for port builds (and by default in CURRENT) and sometimes catches application bugs. Kris
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