Re: build errors: 9172 Broken pipe and 9173 Segmentation fault

[Neil Jerram]

Douglas Mencken <address@hidden> writes:

>   GEN      guile-procedures.texi
> /bin/bash: line 1:  9172 Broken pipe             cat alist.doc
[...]
>       9173 Segmentation fault      | GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
> ../meta/uninstalled-env guile-tools snarf-check-and-output-texi >

Hi Douglas,

AFAIK this isn't an already known problem.  This is the first point in
the build where the built Guile executable is actually run, so the
problem here may be generic (on powerpc) and not necessarily connected
with the snarf-check-and-output-texi function.

To investigate or help us understand more, you could:

- arrange to get a core dump (maybe with 'ulimit -c unlimited')

- use meta/gdb-uninstalled-guile, and then the 'core-file' command
  inside GDB, to look at that core dump

- in particular, use 'thread apply all bt' to get backtraces.

Thanks,
      Neil