[cc:+Torsten] On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 01:07:52PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Renato Botelho <ga...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> > 2.7.4 fails to build on FreeBSD 9.x, that uses by default gcc 4.2.1. I’ve >> > fixed it adding an extra dependency to make force it to require gcc 4.8+. >> > Here is the output: >> > >> > combine-diff.c: In function 'diff_tree_combined': >> > combine-diff.c:1391: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault: 11 >> >> Interesting. This appears to be the same bug as [1]. >> >> [1]: >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/287486/focus=287789 > > Yes. AFAICT that version of gcc is simply buggy, and we are not doing > anything illegal or even particularly exotic. Given how old it is, I'm > not sure it's worth worrying too much about it, but I am happy to work > around it if somebody can figure out how to do so. > > I spent some time trying to bisect gcc, but had trouble getting a > working build for a gcc that old.
I installed FreeBSD 9 and managed to reproduce the compiler crash. After a bit of experimentation, I devised a simple work-around and submitted it as a patch[1]. [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/289397 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
