Re: Test failure (pma) with gawk-5.2.0 beta

[arnold]

Hi.

Thanks for the report. It looks like gawk is being built as a PIE
executable, and it needs to be non-PIE. The code in configure (from
m4/pma.m4) adds the -no-pie flag to the compile flags which should do
the trick.

When make runs, do you see the -no-pie flag on the GCC command lines?

In any case, please send on:

- CPU architecture
- OS version
- The output of config.guess on that system
- The result of running `file gawk'

If this is the only test that fails then all regular uses of gawk should
be fine, and only the new persistent memory feature won't work, but
I'd like to solve that issue as well.

Thanks,

Arnold

Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Thanks for the new beta release.
>
> I get the following segfault when running the gawk-5.2.0 beta (5.1.65) test 
> suite:
> ```
> Core was generated by `../gawk BEGIN { print ++i }'.
> Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0x000055a9583867f2 in in_array (s=0x2ad8c002e810, a=0x2ad8c0006978) at 
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/awk.h:1916
> 1916            ret = a->aexists(a, s);
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x000055a9583867f2 in in_array (s=0x2ad8c002e810, a=0x2ad8c0006978) at 
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/awk.h:1916
> #1  lookup (name=<optimized out>) at 
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/symbol.c:162
> #2  0x000055a958375c06 in err (isfatal=isfatal@entry=false, 
> s=s@entry=0x55a9583aa659 "", emsg=0x55a9583aa302 "fatal error: internal 
> error", argp=argp@entry=0x7ffc4587fdd0)
>     at /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/msg.c:56
> #3  0x000055a958376e51 in msg (mesg=<optimized out>) at 
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/msg.c:122
> #4  0x000055a958376f3b in catchsig (sig=11) at 
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/main.c:1318
> #5  <signal handler called>
> #6  0x000055a9583867f2 in in_array (s=0x2ad8c002e7b8, a=0x2ad8c0006978) at 
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/awk.h:1916
> #7  lookup (name=<optimized out>) at 
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/symbol.c:162
> #8  0x000055a958318d6b in init_symbol_table () at 
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/symbol.c:114
> #9  init_symbol_table () at 
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/symbol.c:75
> #10 main (argc=2, argv=0x7ffc45880708) at 
> /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/main.c:324
> ```
>
> ```
> time
> egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using /bin/grep -E
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/test'
> make[3]: Entering directory 
> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/test'
> pma
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:2215: pma] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/test'
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:2201: pma-tests] Error 2
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/test'
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65/test'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:804: check-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65/work/gawk-5.1.65'
> make: *** [Makefile:1103: check] Error 2
>  * ERROR: sys-apps/gawk-5.1.65::gentoo failed (test phase):
>  *   Make check failed. See above for details.
> ```
>
> Let me know if more information is needed. Built w/ gcc 12.2.0.
>
> Best,
> sam