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According to Daniel Walker on 11/12/2008 8:53 AM: > Eric, > > I'd be glad to help, but I'm a network engineer and compiling apps in > *nix is usually no deeper then configure/make/make install. I don't see > the tag for MallocHelp (as directed by the output error msg), but if you > send me the command strings I'll execute them on the Mac OS X 10.4 > workstation and return the results. The ver of autoconf is 2.63. The question isn't which version of autoconf, but which version of m4. What does 'gm4 --version' output? Did you build /opt/local/bin/gm4 yourself, or was it pre-installed? > > I've attached a copy of the results from the make with the debug tag > on. perhaps this will help. if there's anything specific you need from > me please don't hesitate to ask. The debug output given by 'make -D' doesn't add any information: it is not make that is crashing, but m4. What I was asking for is a call trace from m4 at the point where it crashed. Assuming that /opt/local/bin/gm4 is indeed m4 1.4.12, and that you built it (or can reproduce the build, starting from the release tarball), then it helps to make sure that m4 is built with debugging symbols (./configure CFLAGS=-g). Also, m4 1.4.12 normally catches SIGBUS to display a nice error message with the bug reporting address; but now that we know a SIGBUS is happening, it might be easier to actually dump core at that point, so gdb can display the stacktrace from the core dump. To do that, comment out the four sigaction calls in lines 401-404 of src/m4.c prior to compilation. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkbA9gACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDfNACgibrDgE732NsL/HKMoy1Mu+L/ n7UAoLuqMCjQem7ooxUCiJVu6RhB4PfE =dSoL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
