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Re: glibc 2.1: make check fails [solved]
>>>>> Henning writes:
> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>>
>> Just run the test by itself:
>> cd libc-sources/localedata
>> /bin/sh -e tst-rpmatch.sh /build-directory-with-slash-at-end/
>> (in your case: /bin/sh -e tst-rpmatch.sh /usr/src/glibc/build/ )
> Well, I did it and got a surprise.
> First I saw nothing but "Segmentation fault"
> Executing again with an inserted "set -vx" command showed,
> that the Segfault occurred with or after the first 'read' in the
> while loop.
> This was with the very latest version of bash, 2.03.0 (990219),
> statically linked, glibc2.
> As I had some older versions handy I tried those.
> 1.14.7 didn't work (as expected).
> 2.02.x (static, glibc1) succeeded
> 2.02.x (dynamic, glibc2) succeeded, too.
> Must the failure of 2.03.0 be considered a bash bug?
Yes!
> If so, I would notify Chet Ramey, or someone else should do.
Please do so and CC myself. It might have been reported already but
I'm not sure.
> However, my newly built glibc 2.1 seems to be ok now and I
> can install it.
Yes.
Thanks,
Andreas
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