[Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#861486: Bug#861486: Bug#861486: julia: FTBFS on mips64el (segmentation fault)

[Peter Colberg]

Hi Graham,

On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 01:53:43PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Simply running, e.g. 'debian/shlibdeps pow', 10 or so times in a row
> is enough to get it to segfault.
> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to happen when run in gdb.
> I don't know why this program [1], which is used to generate
> julia.links, would be failing randomly in this way (it seems to occur
> after the final 'printf') and only on this architecture.
> 
> [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-julia/julia.git/tree/debian/shlibdeps.c

Since I don’t have access to mips64el at the moment:

Could you comment all lines and then successively uncomment to see
which line triggers the segfault?

You could also try querying a symbol in libm other than pow and see
whether that changes anything.

Regards,
Peter