Bug 31462

Summary: pdksh segfaults when using libtool with long command line
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm>
Component: pdkshAssignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
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Description Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 2001-03-11 22:45:41 UTC
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Is segfaults (tries to free unallocated memory):
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0804a185 in ablockfree (bp=0x67206f6c, ap=0x807f188) at
alloc.c:471                           
#1  0x0804a04c in afree (ptr=0x812a6f8, ap=0x807f188) at
alloc.c:419                                
#2  0x080706d2 in setstr (vq=0x8124c28, s=0x8129398 "elector.lo
gnome-procbar.lo gnome-window.lo gnome-window-icon.lo gnometypes.lo 
gtkcauldron.lo gtk-clock.lo gtk-ted.lo gtkdial.lo gtkpixmapmenuitem.lo
-L/usr/lib -lesd -laudiofile+-lm -L/usr/lib -laudi"..., error_ok=1) at
var.c:372                                                
#3  0x08071316 in typeset (     var=0x8129388 "lib_search_path=elector.lo
gnome-procbar.lo gnome-window.lo gnome-window-icon.lo +gnometypes.lo
gtkcauldron.lo gtk-clock.lo gtk-ted.lo gtkdial.lo gtkpixmapmenuitem.lo
-L/usr/lib    +-lesd -laudiofile -lm -"..., set=0, clr=0, field=0,  base=0)
at
var.c:726                                                                            
#4  0x0805990d in comexec (t=0x80a52b0, tp=0x0, ap=0x80a51a8, flags=0) at
exec.c:575 
...                                                

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Tested on libtool 1.3.5, pdksh 5.2.14:
1. cp /usr/bin/libtool ~/
2. vi ~/libtool and change s#!/bin/ksh
3. run libtool throught this (gdb) simple script (not directly):
mkdir -p /tmp/testXYZ && cd /tmp/testXYZ
~/libtool --mode=link gcc  -O2 -march=i686 -Wall -Wunused  -s -o
libgnomeui.la -rpath /usr/X11R6/lib -version-info 46:1:14 -rpath
/usr/X11R6/lib gnome-about.lo gnome-animator.lo gnome-app.lo
gnome-appbar.lo gnome-app-helper.lo gnome-app-util.lo gnome-calculator.lo
gnome-canvas.lo gnome-canvas-image.lo gnome-canvas-load.lo
gnome-canvas-line.lo gnome-canvas-rect-ellipse.lo gnome-canvas-polygon.lo
gnome-canvas-text.lo gnome-canvas-util.lo gnome-canvas-widget.lo
gnome-client.lo gnome-color-picker.lo gnome-dateedit.lo
gnome-dentry-edit.lo gnome-dialog.lo gnome-dialog-util.lo gnome-dns.lo
gnome-dock.lo gnome-dock-band.lo gnome-dock-item.lo gnome-dock-layout.lo
gnome-druid.lo gnome-druid-page.lo gnome-druid-page-start.lo
gnome-druid-page-standard.lo gnome-druid-page-finish.lo gnome-geometry.lo
gnome-guru.lo gnome-entry.lo gnome-file-entry.lo gnome-font-picker.lo
gnome-font-selector.lo gnome-href.lo gnome-ice.lo gnome-icon-list.lo
gnome-icon-item.lo gnome-icon-sel.lo gnome-icon-text.lo gnome-icon-entry.lo
gnome-init.lo gnome-less.lo gnome-mdi.lo gnome-mdi-child.lo
gnome-mdi-generic-child.lo gnome-mdi-session.lo gnome-messagebox.lo
gnome-number-entry.lo gnome-pixmap.lo gnome-pixmap-entry.lo
gnome-popup-menu.lo gnome-popup-help.lo gnome-preferences.lo
gnome-propertybox.lo gnome-properties.lo gnome-property-entries.lo
gnome-scores.lo gnome-spell.lo gnome-startup.lo gnome-stock.lo
gnome-winhints.lo gnome-paper-selector.lo gnome-procbar.lo gnome-window.lo
gnome-window-icon.lo gnometypes.logtkcauldron.lo gtk-clock.lo gtk-ted.lo
gtkdial.lo gtkpixmapmenuitem.lo -L/usr/lib -lesd -laudiofile -lm -L/usr/lib
-laudiofile -lm -ldb3 -L/usr/lib -lglib -ldl -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgdk_imlib
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -L/usr/lib -rdynamic
-lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm -lSM -lICE -L/usr/X11R6/lib
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -L/usr/lib -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl
-lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm -lz -lm 

Actual Results:  segfault 
Expected Results:  not segfault ;-)

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-03-12 15:34:48 UTC
Can you try getting the new kernel, pdksh and glibc from wolverine (or even
better: Rawhide) and try it again?

Also, how do you run that through gdb? I tried runninng the looong command line
in pdksh (after switching to ksh in ~/libtool), and couldn't reproduce your crash:

gcc: gtkdial.lo: No such file or directory
gcc: gtkpixmapmenuitem.lo: No such file or directory
$


Comment 2 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 2001-03-12 19:20:16 UTC
Please ignore this bug report. I also have gcc 2.95.3-test4 (not from RH) and it
seems that it miscompiles pdksh. pdksh compiled using officiall compilator
from RH (I also tested this with gcc 20010305 snapshot) works fine.