Re: [Help-smalltalk] Bus error while building GST 3.2 on SPARC Linux

[Bruno Haible]

Gabriel Cuvillier wrote:
> Maybe it is not related, but I have a similar problem on that system when I
> try to compile CLISP, which is also using libsigsegv. 
> 
> With CLISP 2.49, I have the following error during the build of the initial 
> image:
> 
> ./lisp.run -B . -N locale -E UTF-8 -Epathname 1:1 -Emisc 1:1 -norc -m 2MW -lp 
>  -x '(and (load "init.lisp") (sys::%saveinitmem) (ext::exit)) (ext::exit t)'
> make: *** [interpreted.mem] Segmentation fault

It is unrelated. CLISP also has a GC, with its own peculiar portability
problems and bugs.

You can report this on the clisp-list or clisp-devel list, though.

> I have tried to add -DNO_GENERATIONAL_GC, -DNO_TRIVIALMAP, -DNO_SINGLEMAP,
> and also tried to increase ulimits values. But nothing better.

clisp's unix/PLATFORMS file suggest as first thing to try: -DSAFETY=3.
Does this work?

Bruno