Do the guile test scripts work correctly for anyone ?

[Pete French]

I am trying to run the guile test suite in dev-apps/test/gtests to
be able to test the 64 bit patches I am making for amd64. But I am running up
against a little problem like this:

./gtest-base
2004-09-01 11:22:23.000 guile-base[46020] attempt to initialize character set 
with invalid bitmap
2004-09-01 11:22:23.000 guile-base[46020] attempt to initialize character set 
with invalid bitmap
gmake: *** [check] Segmentation fault (core dumped)

If I run it verbose then the last bit looks liek this:

PASS: CCString case sensitive literal comparison for "abcdefg" and "CDEF" is 
NSOrderedDescending
PASS: UUString case sensitive literal comparison for "abcdefg" and "CDEF" is 
NSOrderedDescending
PASS: UCString case sensitive literal comparison for "abcdefg" and "CDEF" is 
NSOrderedDescending
PASS: CUString case sensitive literal comparison for "abcdefg" and "CDEF" is 
NSOrderedDescending
PASS: create strings for range with "hello" and "hello" is ok
gmake: *** [verbose] Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Now, at this point I would normally dig out gdb and enthesiasticly dig in
to try and find out what is going on. Except for the fact that the core
file produces causes my gdb to coredump too?! Not seen that before.

the error GDB gives is:

Reading symbols from 
/usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1...Deprecated 
bfd_read called at 
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/dwarf2read.c line 
3049 in dwarf2_read_section
Error while reading shared library symbols:
Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.

I am running on FreeBSD 4.10 using gcc3.3.4 and gdb 4.18 (I cant compile any of
the more recent gdb's)

-bat.