From: Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Date: 2004-03-19T03:44:32+09:00
Subject: ./lib/ftools.rb:204: [BUG] Segmentation fault

I need some pointers on compiling on a IA64 system
(a 512-processor SGI Altix).

For the 03-18-2004 stable snapshot, I am getting:

  gcc -g -O2   -I. -I.  -c dmyext.c
  ar rcu libruby-static.a array.o bignum.o class.o compar.o dir.o dln.o enum.o error.o eval.o file.o gc.o hash.o inits.o io.o marshal.o math.o numeric.o object.o pack.o parse.o process.o prec.o random.o range.o re.o regex.o ruby.o signal.o sprintf.o st.o 
string.o struct.o time.o util.o variable.o version.o  dmyext.o
  gcc -g -O2   -I. -I.  -c main.c
  gcc -g -O2    -rdynamic  main.o dmyext.o libruby-static.a -ldl -lcrypt -lm   -o miniruby
  ./lib/ftools.rb:204: [BUG] Segmentation fault
  ruby 1.8.1 (2004-03-15) [ia64-linux]

  make: *** [rbconfig.rb] Aborted (core dumped)

Where lib/ftools.rb has:

     198   def makedirs(*dirs)
     199     verbose = if dirs[-1].is_a? String then false else dirs.pop end
     200 #    mode = if dirs[-1].is_a? Fixnum then dirs.pop else 0755 end
     201     mode = 0755
     202     for dir in dirs
     203       parent = dirname(dir)
     204       next if parent == dir or FileTest.directory? dir
     205       makedirs parent unless FileTest.directory? parent
     206       $deferr.print "mkdir ", dir, "\n" if verbose

The machine is using a special SGI Linux kernel:

  % uname -r
  2.4.21-sgi240rp04021313_10046

and apparently a 2.96 glibc:

  % gcc -v
  Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ia64-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
  gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-118.7.2)

Thanks,
-- 
Bil Kleb, Hampton, Virginia