[OE-core] autom4te segfault in Dumper.so when configuring intltool

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 07:05:35PM -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, I see it very often since this patch almost 3 years ago:
> > http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-August/066282.html
> 
> The problem seems to be that autom4te is getting executed by the host
> system's perl but loads Dumper.so from OE sysroot. If the host and OE
> versions of perl are sufficiently different then host perl crashes
> when it tries to execute OE sysroot Dumper.so
> 
> Manually hacking the first line of autom4te to replace "/usr/bin/perl"
> with the full path to the perl-native binary in OE sysroot makes the
> crashes stop.

Based on RP's reply in the old thread I assume you should rather try to
hack it to load Dumper.so from system, so that there is no dependency
between automake-native and perl-native.

> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm seeing messages such as the following appear in syslog when
> >> building intltool or intltool-native from fido:
> >>
> >>   [1049484.121948] autom4te[16180]: segfault at 1 ip 00007fea41a7e7fe
> >> sp 00007fff3c666080 error 4 in Dumper.so[7fea41a77000+8000]
> >>   [1049567.199028] autom4te[17012]: segfault at 1 ip 00007f34acc007fe
> >> sp 00007fff5ed84db0 error 4 in Dumper.so[7f34acbf9000+8000]
> >>
> >> The segfault happens reproducibly when configuring intltool or
> >> intltool-native (one segfault every time I run or re-run the
> >> run.do_configure script).
> >>
> >> There are no obvious errors in config.log and the intltool build
> >> succeeds over-all.
> >>
> >> If I hack the intltool run.do_configure script so that the host
> >> machine's perl (v5.18.2) is found instead of perl-native from sysroot
> >> then the segfaults stop.
> >>
> >> Is anyone else seeing the same issue?
> >>
> >> Andre
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