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Re: LYNX-DEV SEGV abort in lynx 2.7.1
From: |
Aidan Evans |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV SEGV abort in lynx 2.7.1 |
Date: |
Tue, 6 May 1997 11:43:15 -0300 (ADT) |
On Mon, 5 May 1997, Aidan Evans wrote:
> I recently downloaded Lynx 2.7.1 from http://www.slcc.edu/lynx to an AIX
>4.1.4 system and compiled it with IBM's C 3.1.3. I used the distributed
>Makefile. It seemed to be working fine, but when I pressed "h" for help
>the result was
>
> A Fatal error has occurred in Lynx Ver. 2.7.1
>
> Please notify your system administrator to confirm a bug, and
> ...
>
> Lynx now exiting with signal: 11
>
> IOT/Abort trap(coredump)
...
> It seems unreasonable that I should be the first person to press "h" in
>Lynx 2.7.1 and thus be the discoverer of a bug, so the failure makes me
>suspect bad code generated by the compiler optimization. I'm going to
>re-compile with "-g" instead of "-O" and see if I have any better luck.
>I'd appreciate knowing of successful AIX 4 compilations of Lynx 2.7.1 where
>"h" does work.
Re-compiling with "-g" instead of "-O" in the Makefile line
cd src; $(MAKE) all CC="cc" MCFLAGS="-O -DFANCY_CURSES -DUNIX -DAIX4 \
for the "aix4" target got rid of the problem.
Aidan Evans | address@hidden | Computer Facilities & Operations
| 494-3332 | University Computing & Information Services
| Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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