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

[dann frazier]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:25:22AM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> 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 :-()

root at c3700:/tmp/gnustep-base-1.19.3# gdnc --help
gdnc

GNU Distributed Notification Center
--help		for help
--no-fork	avoid fork() to make debugging easy
--verbose	More verbose debug output
root at c3700:/tmp/gnustep-base-1.19.3# pl2link --help
The source property list must contain an NSDictionary.
root at c3700:/tmp/gnustep-base-1.19.3#

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dann frazier