[Texi2html-bug] texi2html 1.82 fails 2 tests on OS X 10.5

[Hanspeter Niederstrasser]

On OS X 10.5/i386, texi2html 1.82 fails 2 tests:


PERL=/usr/bin/perl ./configure && make && make -j1 -w check
....
D: diffs/formatting_converted_to_utf8.diff
D: diffs/accentenc.diff
.././run_test.sh: line 170: 39120 Segmentation fault      perl -w -x 
.././encodings/../../texi2html.pl -conf-dir 
.././encodings/../../examples -conf-dir .././encodings/ -I 
.././encodings/ -I .././encodings/../ -test --out 
out/accentenc_encoding/ accentenc_encoding accentenc.texi -init 
enable_encoding.init .././encodings/accentenc.texi >> tests.out 2> 
out/accentenc_encoding/accentenc.2
F: out/accentenc_encoding/accentenc.2
D: diffs/accent.diff
D: diffs/weird_accents.diff
F: out/weird_accents_encoding/weird_accents.2
D: diffs/ogolat2.diff
D: diffs/ogoutf.diff
encodings: 1
....
D: diffs/style_not_closed_in_cartouche.diff
D: diffs/multitable_too_much_col.diff
invalid: 1
FAIL: base_tests
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1 of 1 tests failed
Please report to address@hidden
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make[3]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/src/texi2html-1.82/test'
make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2

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 $ cat encodings/out/accentenc_encoding/accentenc.2
*** Can't read file accentenc_encoding: No such file or directory
"\x{0113}" does not map to iso-8859-1 at 
.././encodings/../../texi2html.pl line 13849.
"\x{0113}" does not map to iso-8859-1 at 
.././encodings/../../texi2html.pl line 13849.
"\x{030b}" does not map to iso-8859-1 at 
.././encodings/../../texi2html.pl line 13849.
...
"\x{0135}" does not map to iso-8859-1 at 
.././encodings/../../texi2html.pl line 7805.
"\x{0308}" does not map to iso-8859-1 at 
.././encodings/../../texi2html.pl line 7805.
Deep recursion on subroutine 
"Texi2HTML::Config::enable_encoding_normal_accent" at 
.././encodings/../../examples/enable_encoding.init line 222.
Deep recursion on subroutine "Texi2HTML::Config::enable_encoding_accent" 
at .././encodings/../../examples/enable_encoding.init line 110.
perl(39120) malloc: *** mmap(size=16777216) failed (error code=12)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Out of memory!
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The two failed tests, accentenc and weird_accents, are the only two *.2 
output files with "Out of memory".

The crash dumps a log which follows (system-perl is 5.8.8, but the 
failures also happen with perl-5.10.0):

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Process:         perl [17057]
Path:            /usr/bin/perl
Identifier:      perl
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  sh [15879]

Date/Time:       2011-02-04 14:17:43.218 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version:  6
Anonymous UUID:  014E63F1-E7A6-4741-9243-26D5FA2891B3

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000028
Crashed Thread:  0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   libperl.dylib                       0x002011cd Perl_dounwind + 621
1   libperl.dylib                       0x0014949a S_my_exit_jump + 218
2   libperl.dylib                       0x00149621 Perl_my_exit + 65
3   libperl.dylib                       0x001aa1de Perl_safesysmalloc + 174
4   libperl.dylib                       0x001e4de9 Perl_newSV + 297
5   libperl.dylib                       0x00190b93 Perl_pad_push + 435
6   libperl.dylib                       0x001c7ccc Perl_pp_entersub + 2076
7   libperl.dylib                       0x001be2a9 Perl_runops_standard + 25
8   libperl.dylib                       0x0014b036 perl_run + 310
9   perl                                0x0000204e 0x1000 + 4174
10  perl                                0x00001ee6 0x1000 + 3814

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
  eax: 0xff7f5be8  ebx: 0x00200f6b  ecx: 0x00800000  edx: 0x00000000
  edi: 0xf934c040  esi: 0x00800000  ebp: 0xbffff388  esp: 0xbffff360
   ss: 0x0000001f  efl: 0x00010206  eip: 0x002011cd   cs: 0x00000017
   ds: 0x0000001f   es: 0x0000001f   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x00000037
  cr2: 0x00000028

Binary Images:
    0x1000 -     0x2ffd +perl ??? (???) 
<86a8c9fef0964140f7794616f31df16f> /usr/bin/perl
    0x7000 -     0x9fff  libutil.dylib ??? (???) 
<5ac8a5517aae408d0fdb6da13a2faf89> /usr/lib/libutil.dylib
   0x11000 -    0x12ff8  Cwd.bundle ??? (???) 
<17b39c1ee6c9ce347121432f964f6046> 
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/Cwd/Cwd.bundle
   0x20000 -    0x3afff  POSIX.bundle ??? (???) 
<fc965a0194c231847c2f7795d4665bbd> 
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/POSIX/POSIX.bundle
   0x58000 -    0x5bff6  Glob.bundle ??? (???) 
<bd115cbe3e1d58174f9ca336ac364e00> 
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/File/Glob/Glob.bundle
   0x5f000 -    0x65fe7  Encode.bundle ??? (???) 
<92c5ba32a94a6b54a53eb21c93128c4e> 
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/Encode/Encode.bundle
   0x6a000 -    0x74ffe  Normalize.bundle ??? (???) 
<2554d6ff7ae9e202305b263f6a880916> 
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/Unicode/Normalize/Normalize.bundle
   0xb3000 -    0xb6ff3  encoding.bundle ??? (???) 
<564d4de77df179cd4a7a6cf5e83e75a2> 
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/PerlIO/encoding/encoding.bundle
  0x147000 -   0x261ff3  libperl.dylib ??? (???) 
<f149a22f28ea94c69ce6f9a3586b9b06> 
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/libperl.dylib
0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe2db43  dyld 97.1 (???) 
<458eed38a009e5658a79579e7bc26603> /usr/lib/dyld
0x9230b000 - 0x92472ff3  libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) 
<c8f52e158bf540cc000146ca8a705958> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
0x924cc000 - 0x924d3fe9  libgcc_s.1.dylib ??? (???) 
<f53c808e87d1184c0f9df63aef53ce0b> /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
0x952be000 - 0x952c2fff  libmathCommon.A.dylib ??? (???) 
/usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib
0xffff0000 - 0xffff1780  libSystem.B.dylib ??? (???) 
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
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Any help in figuring out the source of the failure is appreciated.

Hanspeter

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Hanspeter Niederstrasser
hanspeter at snaggledworks.com