Re: GNUstep base fails - libobjc2 on NetBSD x86

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Frederik,


On 1/3/21 3:26 PM, Frederik Seiffert wrote:
> Looks like the conftest executable is aborting. Can you try running it with a 
> debugger to see where it fails?


I couldn't find the conftest binary after the failure, seems it does get 
removed immediately. I don't remember if there is a command to save the 
generated executables.

I did reconstruct it from the config.log, wrote the soruce code in a 
file then run the exact same command that is written there.

It fails this way:

(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/multix/code/libs-base/conftest
/System/Library/Libraries/libobjc.so.4.6: text relocations
[Inferior 1 (process 6265) exited normally]
(gdb) bt
No stack.

It appears to me it does not even run and doesn't like something in my 
libobjc.so.

I fear, it really is not built correctly then - I got it building but it 
is not working on NetBSD/i386

Well, I should have checked:

0% tests passed, 186 tests failed out of 186

I found this in the logs:

/home/multix/code/libobjc2/Build/libobjc.so.4.6: text relocations
/home/multix/code/libobjc2/Build/libobjc.so.4.6: Cannot write-enable 
text segment: Permission denied

I wonder if we are violiting some permissions of PaX ? I cannot set PaX 
on libraries though, only on executables.

Or some address is bogus or other havoc is going on.


Riccardo