Subject: Re: troff coredumps
To: V. M. Haas <vhaas@cnj.digex.net>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/22/1997 17:50:00
> People -
>
> In attempting to do an end-to-end recompile from source, I find that many
> of the troff, groff and nroff makes for the manpages are coredumping with
> a signal 11 (segmentation violation).
>
> I tried recompiling the troff, nroff and groff from source and reinstalling
> them, but the symptoms are unchanged.
>
> The binaries are from the 1.2C snapshot, and I am wondering if others are
> having this occur. If so is there a fix?
>
IIRC this appeared when the groff packet was compiled with -O; I think
that it was grotty and groff that coredumped. Try to recompile it
without -O and tell if it works better.
-- Ragge