Re: LYNX-DEV SEGV abort in lynx 2.7.1

[Aidan Evans]

On Mon, 5 May 1997, Aidan Evans wrote:

>  I recently downloaded Lynx 2.7.1 from http://www.slcc.edu/lynx to an AIX
>4.1.4 system and compiled it with IBM's C 3.1.3.  I used the distributed
>Makefile.  It seemed to be working fine, but when I pressed "h" for help
>the result was
> 
>       A Fatal error has occurred in Lynx Ver. 2.7.1
>       
>       Please notify your system administrator to confirm a bug, and
>       ...
>       
>       Lynx now exiting with signal:  11
>       
>       IOT/Abort trap(coredump)
...
>  It seems unreasonable that I should be the first person to press "h" in
>Lynx 2.7.1 and thus be the discoverer of a bug, so the failure makes me
>suspect bad code generated by the compiler optimization.  I'm going to
>re-compile with "-g" instead of "-O" and see if I have any better luck.
>I'd appreciate knowing of successful AIX 4 compilations of Lynx 2.7.1 where
>"h" does work.

  Re-compiling with "-g" instead of "-O" in the Makefile line

        cd src; $(MAKE) all CC="cc" MCFLAGS="-O -DFANCY_CURSES -DUNIX -DAIX4 \

for the "aix4" target got rid of the problem.

Aidan Evans | address@hidden | Computer Facilities & Operations
            | 494-3332     | University Computing & Information Services
                           | Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada

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