Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3

[Paul Eggert]

Georg Schwarz <address@hidden> writes:

> + echo data
> + ln dd-in.797 dd-in2.797
> + ln -s dd-in.797 dd-sym.797
> + test 0 = 1
> + dd if=dd-in.797 of=dd-out.797
> Segmentation fault - core dumped

OK, so we have a very simple test case to illustrate the problem:

   echo data > input
   dd if=input of=output

Perhaps you can run 'dd' under 'par' to see more about the failure?
E.g.,

   par -sSSl dd if=input of=output

(Sorry, I'm not a 'par' expert, so I may have the details wrong.)


> I'll try to compile gdb, but that's likely to become not an easy task...

Is some other debugger available, e.g., "adb"?
If so, you should be able to use that instead.