cameron@cs.flinders.oz.au (Cameron Humphries) (05/30/90)
I recently (yesterday) started building the Andrew distribution as it appears on the X11R4 contrib tapes. I am trying to build it on a Sun4 running SunOS 4.0.3. Everything appears to go fine until: making (/ada/andrew/atk/basics/common) /ada/andrew_inst/bin/makedo -d /ada/andrew_inst/lib -b /ada/andrew_inst/bin -o app.do app.o Segmentation fault (core dumped) The segmentation fault comes from "ld". I have tried executing the offending command on its own and there are no diagnostics generated. Any ideas? Cameron Humphries Discipline of Computer Science email: cameron@cs.flinders.oz.au School of Information Science and Technology phone: +61 +8 201 2874 The Flinders University of South Australia fax : +61 +8 201 2904
wjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Fred Hansen) (05/31/90)
Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 30-May-90 Trouble building the Andrew.. Cameron Humphries@cs.fli (754) > Everything appears to go fine until: > making (/ada/andrew/atk/basics/common) > /ada/andrew_inst/bin/makedo -d /ada/andrew_inst/lib -b /ada/andrew_inst/bin -o > app.do app.o > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > The segmentation fault comes from "ld". One common cause of core dumps on Sun4's is a bug in the shell. The usual way to try to get around it is to simplify the Makefile as much as possible. Other people have reported success by creating an environment with as few variables defined as possible; maybe as little as HOME, TERM, USER, PATH. Allegedly Sun knows of the problem, but I have no evidence that suggests they have fixed it. Good luck, Fred Hansen
datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) (06/01/90)
>One common cause of core dumps on Sun4's is a bug in the shell. I seem to have hit it on a 3/80 running 4.0.3, at the point of the do.alias target in atk/support. >environment with as few variables defined as possible; maybe as little >as HOME, TERM, USER, PATH. Worked for me. --