Re: Segfaults while building "perl" package

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:26:42PM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:15:58PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:11:49PM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > > > I'm quite sure it is not a hardware problem because the machine managed
> > > > to build NetBSD-current for amd64 and sparc64 before I upgraded
> > > > to NetBSD 4.99.64.
> > > > 
> > > > Has anybody seen similar crashes?
> > > 
> > > Looking into it at the moment...
> > 
> > In case it helps you with the diagnosis:
> > The problem doesn't seem to affect my NetBSD-sparc64 system. It has built
> > the "perl" package using a 4.99.64 kernel without any problems.
> 
> Should be fixed now (sys/kern/kern_pax.c).

Excellent ! This seems to have fixed some compat linux32 problems too.
Especially for acroread7 which was failing early during startup (mmap
failure when loading libraries).

Thanks a lot.

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.