Re: gettext 0.17 segmentation fault on make check on AIX 6.1

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Federico Ficarelli wrote:
>    I'm writing to report several test failures I'm facing during make 
> check on an AIX 6.1 machine with gettext 0.17 built with IBM VisualAge 
> compiler version 10.1.
> 
> * Configure:
> ./configure --prefix=$SANDBOX CC=xlc_r CXX=xlC_r F77=xlf_r
> 
> * config.log attached to this mail
> 
> * The failed tests are:
> 
> ./msgexec-1[76]: 1532110 Segmentation fault(coredump)
> FAIL: msgexec-1
> ./msgexec-3[51]: 1851596 Segmentation fault(coredump)
> FAIL: msgexec-3
> ./msgexec-4[73]: 1851616 Segmentation fault(coredump)
> FAIL: msgexec-4
> ./msgfilter-2[96]: 938140 Segmentation fault(coredump)
> FAIL: msgfilter-2
> ./msgfilter-4[91]: 938154 Segmentation fault(coredump)
> FAIL: msgfilter-4
> ./msginit-1[44]: 1331342 Segmentation fault(coredump)
> FAIL: msginit-1
> ./msginit-2[68]: 1273908 Segmentation fault(coredump)
> FAIL: msginit-2
> ./msgunfmt-java-1[59]: 1757400 Segmentation fault(coredump)
> FAIL: msgunfmt-java-1
> 
> =======================
> 9 of 295 tests failed
> (32 tests were not run)
> =======================
> 
> How can I investigate the source of these failures?

These 9 failures all occur when a gettext program attempts to
execute another program, via posix_spawn. It is known that the AIX
implementation of posix_spawn has bugs [1], and newer versions of
gettext (development sources in git [2]) and gnulib (also development
sources in git) have workarounds.

I would suggest you try these newer sources.

Bruno

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/posix_005fspawn.html
[2] http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=gettext