Re: pkg/51266: Seg Faults building devel/gobject-inspection with latest 8.0_BETA

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/51266; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/51266: Seg Faults building devel/gobject-inspection with
 latest 8.0_BETA
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 00:25:38 -0500 (CDT)

 On Sun, 25 Jun 2017, Robert Elz wrote:
 
 > One piece of information which is most likely useful, and which is
 > lacking from all reports here, is what packages are installed at the
 > time a package build fails.
 
 Essentially, start with no packages at all, and pick any one that depends
 on "gobject-introspection".  On i386 it will likely fail immediately.
 On amd64 it may succeed to build "gobject-introspection" itself, but
 fail later when it is used, either on that initial package or some
 subsequent package which also uses it.
 
 Otherwise, the answer is the output of 'pkg_info -a'.  (My build
 hosts are currently engaged in other tasks, but once free, I could
 start them on another from-scratch build.)
 
 > Are those of you who are having failures using pbulk, or pkg_comp, or
 > some other similar method to build in a chroot?
 
 For myself no, I am not using any such tools/frameworks.  The failure
 first manifested during use of 'pkg_rolling-replace' to update packages
 on a -current system (7.99.32 at the time).
 
 It subsequently failed during ordinary building of a package depending
 on "gobject-introspection", causing an attempt to build it.  I.e.,
 
   $ cd /usr/pkgsrc/some/package
   $ make package-install
 
 The conditions under which it succeeded/failed have been detailed
 at length already.
 
 > Find the common element, just what it is that is the trigger for all of
 > this, and you will be a lot closer to actually solving this problem.
 
 That's what the bulk of the PR to date documents.  It has proven resistant
 to my (and other's) attempts to gather more information.
 
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