bug#50098: closed (Configuring --with-libsigsegv results in link error)

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> Configuring --with-libsigsegv results in link error
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> Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:06:09 -0400
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> Using grep 3.7 (as well as master), I'm seeing undefined symbol errors after 
> pointing the build to use a local installation of libsigsegv (version 2.13).
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> Making all in src
>   CCLD     grep
> Undefined symbols:
>   "_stackoverflow_install_handler", referenced from:
>       _c_stack_action in libgreputils.a(c-stack.o)
>   "_sigsegv_install_handler", referenced from:
>       _c_stack_action in libgreputils.a(c-stack.o)
> ld: symbol(s) not found
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> Configure appears to find the library (which is provided by MacPorts) 
> correctly. The config.log contains:
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> LIBSIGSEGV='-L/opt/local/lib -lsigsegv'
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> Compiler
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> powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-apple-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 
> 3) (MacPorts apple-gcc42 5666.3_16)
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> System
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> 8.11.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; 
> root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
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> It's an older system but seems close to building the program. Let me know what 
> additional information would be useful for debugging.
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> Evan
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#50098: Configuring --with-libsigsegv results in link error Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:12:17 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0

On 8/17/21 11:06 AM, Evan Miller wrote:

Using grep 3.7 (as well as master), I'm seeing undefined symbol errors after 
pointing the build to use a local installation of libsigsegv (version 2.13).

Thanks for reporting that. It's a bug in Gnulib's c-stack module, which I fixed in Gnulib by installing the attached. The problem should be fixed in the next Grep release. In the meantime you should be able work around the Grep problem by not using --with-libsigsegv.

0001-c-stack-fix-libsigsegv-dependency.patch
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