gnustep-base configure failure on x86

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Riccardo,

> Am 01.03.2015 um 23:50 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <rmottola at opencsw.org>:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> since I need to get gnustep workin on x86, I need to grasp what's wrong.
> 
> The configure stage fails when it checks for libffi.
> 
> configure:10328: /opt/csw/bin/gcc-4.9 -o conftest -g -O2 -I/opt/csw/GNUstep/Loc
> al/Library/Headers -I/opt/csw/GNUstep/Local/Library/Headers -I/opt/csw/GNUstep/S
> ystem/Library/Headers -I/opt/csw/include -L/opt/csw/GNUstep/Local/Library/Lib
> raries -L/opt/csw/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries -L/opt/csw/GNUstep/System/Libr
> ary/Libraries conftest.c -L/opt/csw/lib/ffi -lffi   -lnsl -lrt -ldl -lpthread -
> lz >&5
> configure:10328: $? = 0
> configure:10328: ./conftest
> ./configure: line 1865: 16587 Segmentation Fault      (core dumped) ./conftest$a
> c_exeext
> configure:10328: $? = 139
> 
> Are there known problems for libffi on x86?

Not that I know if.

> or, better, do we know that it works?

As there are reverse dependencies which habe detected libffi correctly at least it
seems so.

> where can I find conftest? I want to run it in gdb if possible!
> and is not there are a core file?

Try to reproduce it manually. The source for conftest is also logger in config.log,
then try to compile and pstack.


Best regards

  — Dago

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