[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#592751: FTBFS [hppa] - make_services: malloc.c:3097: sYSMALLOc: Assertion failed

[Yavor Doganov]

dann frazier wrote:
> fyi, talksoup.app is failing w/ a similar error:

Yes, every GNUstep package will fail as the core programs are
obviously non-functional.

> Perhaps this bug should be reassigned w/ gnustep-gui & talksoup.app
> marked as "affected"?

Sure, once it is clear where the problem lies...

I suspect the culprit is in the ObjectiveC2 compatibility code.  Can
you try to build an old version [1] of gnustep-base and see if the
generated binaries (e.g. gdnc, pl2link) crash?  If they don't, that
would immediately rule out any toolchain problems.  (And as per
Murphy's law, the current gnustep-base was not built on hppa in
experimental, so we would be making this discovery too late :-()

[1] dget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20100513T043821Z/pool/main/g/gnustep-base/gnustep-base_1.19.3-3.dsc