Re: I experience a Crash during ./configure conftest somewhere (MacOSX)

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden writes:
> Rare appearance here.  ;)
>
> Experiencing a crash while going thru ./configure itself, on a
> conftest somewhere.
>
> ISTR this has happened on earlier releases of coreutils also,
> and indeed other gnu and non-gnu stuff elsewhere,
> just been too busy to submit a report here/anywhere, sorry.
>
> System is MacOSX 10.5.6, XCode-3.1.2, everything under
> /usr/local is self-compiled (no involvement of Fink or
> MacPorts etc.).
>
> These crashes occur also when switching my set-up to use other
> compilers available within XCode.
>
> Attached is a Finder-compressed folder of three files:
> - a full complete crashreport as sent to Apple,
> - what we see on the terminal (consolelog)
>   and crashreport pop-up,
> - the config.log while set-up to use gcc-4.2
>
> I've been building the test tarballs anyway.
> Want to be sure this problem is not affecting them, tho,
> before submitting any other reports.
>
> Thanks for any help/clues, I'll try to help as I can.

Thanks for the report.
I looks like your configure run completed normally,
so that a run-tests aborted shouldn't be a problem.
Did this make the package fail to compile or any test fail to pass?