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Bug 98706 - cvs build: perl 5.8.0 segfaults
cvs build: perl 5.8.0 segfaults
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gtkmm
Classification: Bindings
Component: build
2.0
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: gtkmm-forge
gtkmm-forge
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-11-16 16:17 UTC by Jonathan Blandford
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.1/2.2


Description Jonathan Blandford 2002-11-16 16:17:20 UTC 
/usr/bin/perl -I../../tools/pm ../../tools/gtkmmproc -I ../../tools/m4 --defs .
--mergecdocs style . ./../gtkmm
make[4]: *** [.stamps/stamp-style] Segmentation fault (core dumped)

%rpm -q perl
perl-5.8.0-55

If you need more information, let me know.
Comment 1 Morten Brix Pedersen 2002-11-18 15:14:08 UTC 
I don't know how much it will help, but perhaps you should run gdb on
that coredump so we can understand why it segfaults.
Comment 2 Murray Cumming 2002-11-24 21:47:26 UTC 
2002-11-24  Murray Cumming  <murrayc@usa.net>

	* tools/pm/DocParser.pm (append_parameter_docs): 
	Added workaround for perl 5.8.0 crash when doing regex on empty string.
	This only affects cvs builds. Fixes #98706