[Devel] [SF BUG #461386 ] ftjam seg-fault in compile.c

[Antoine Leca]

Submitted By: David L Jung (djung) on 2001-09-14 01:36


              (not sure if this is the appropriate place to report 
              this - or to boost.org) 

              I'm using the 2.3.5 ftjam sources compiled under Redhat 
              7.2 (beta) using gcc 2.96 (rehat) 
              I'm using it for my own project but with .jam files 
              from the boost build system. 

              When trying to use the <lib> feature for a target I get 
              a segmentation fault in ftjam (output from gdb): 


              Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 
              0x08049d8e in evaluate_rule (rulename=0x80c7f68 
              "$(gGENERATOR_FUNCTION($(target-type)))", 
              args=0xbfffc9c0) at compile.c:524 

              This is the line that reads: 

              rule = bindrule( l->string ); 

              for some reason, l is 0 at this point. Is was assigned 
              a few lines before as: 

              LIST* l; 

              l = var_expand( L0, rulename, 
              rulename+strlen(rulename), args, 0 ); 

              in this case rulename contains 
              "$(gGENERATOR_FUNCTION($(target-type)))" 

              Hope that helps.