Re: [bug-inetutils] ‘ifconfig --help’ segfaults

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   In case you haven’t seen it, ‘ifconfig --help’ segfaults, which prevents
   “make dist” from completing:

I haven't....

   --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
   /bin/sh 
/tmp/nix-build-8vmrn5q091z7nc2aj9waw4pxnkx15zsi-inetutils-tarball-0pref343d647ec1949845a0e593fe713f92de6f97c97.drv-0/git-export/build-aux/missing
 --run help2man                                     \
                   --source='GNU inetutils 1.7.90'              \
                   --include=./ifconfig.h2m             \
                   --output=ifconfig.1          \
                   --section 1                  \
                   `echo ../ifconfig/ifconfig | sed 
s,../ping6/ping6,../ping/ping6, | sed s,../hostname/hostname,../src/hostname, | 
sed s,../inetd/inetd,../src/inetd, | sed s,../logger/logger,../src/logger, | 
sed s,../rcp/rcp,../src/rcp, | sed s,../rexec/rexec,../src/rexec, | sed 
s,../rexecd/rexecd,../src/rexecd, | sed s,../rlogin/rlogin,../src/rlogin, | sed 
s,../rlogind/rlogind,../src/rlogind, | sed s,../rsh/rsh,../src/rsh, | sed 
s,../rshd/rshd,../src/rshd, | sed s,../syslogd/syslogd,../src/syslogd, | sed 
s,../tftp/tftp,../src/tftp, | sed s,../tftpd/tftpd,../src/tftpd, | sed 
s,../traceroute/traceroute,../src/traceroute, | sed 
s,../uucpd/uucpd,../src/uucpd,`
   sh: line 1:  8917 Segmentation fault      ../ifconfig/ifconfig --help 2> 
/dev/null
   help2man: can't get `--help' info from ../ifconfig/ifconfig
   make[3]: *** [man] Error 1
   make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/tmp/nix-build-8vmrn5q091z7nc2aj9waw4pxnkx15zsi-inetutils-tarball-0pref343d647ec1949845a0e593fe713f92de6f97c97.drv-0/git-export/man'
   make[2]: *** [ifconfig.1] Error 2
   --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

   (From <http://hydra.nixos.org/build/315285>.)

   Any idea how to fix it?

Could you try running:

| gdb --args ifconfig --help
| run
| bt full

and send use the output?