Re: Fatal error after pressing [Enter] at the debug prompt

[arnold]

Hi.

Thanks for the report. I see the same thing on the GCC Compile Farm's M1.
There's not a lot I can do about it, except mention it in the README.macosx
file.  I would like to think that the Homebrew people take care of this for
their version, so that it's not a problem for most people.

FWIW, the same thing happens on Intel systems. But I don't have
/opt/homebrew there, not sure what the right solution is other than
to configure without readline.

Thanks,

Arnold

Hermann Peifer <peifer@gmx.eu> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> Here an observation while using Gawk's debugger (in my local git
> sandbox, on my M1 Macbook). More info below.
>
> Regards, Hermann
>
> ========================
>
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: aarch64
> OS: darwin21.6.0
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -DNDEBUG
> uname output: Darwin hal.local 21.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: Mon
> Aug 22 20:20:05 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.140.49~2
> Machine Type: aarch64-apple-darwin21.6.0
>
> Gawk Version: 5.2.60
>
> Attestation 1:
>      I have read
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Bugs.html.
>      Yes
>
> Attestation 2:
>      I have not modified the sources before building gawk.
>      True
>
> Description:
>      Simply pressing [Enter] at the debug prompt generates a fatal error.
>
> Repeat-By: Simply pressing [Enter] at the debug prompt
>  > ./gawk -D -f test/hello.awk
> gawk>
> gawk: fatal error: internal error
> Abort trap: 6
>
> Fix:
>      The error goes away when configuring like this:
> ./configure --with-readline=/opt/homebrew/opt/readline
>