segmentation fault - can someone give me a workaround?

[Mark Galeck]

Hello,

we are using GNU Make 3.82, and I just asked the admin to reinstall it, just in 
case the installation went south.  But still, I am getting a segmentation 
fault.  

I will show you below a smallest possible sample case, but, the fault happens a 
lot in similar cases.  So I am hoping someone (Paul?) can look and give me a 
workaround.  Tell what kind of thing to avoid, so the bug does not bite me.


Here is the smallest makefile that reproduces the problem for me:

I do
>make clean; make bin/sw/libfoobar.a


.SUFFIXES:

.SECONDEXPANSION:

sw/OBJS := bin/sw/foobar.o
bin/%.a: $(sw/OBJS) Makefile | $$(@D)/.
        touch $@

bin/%.o: %.cpp Makefile | $$(@D)/.
        touch $@


################################################################################
# make a directory
# directory targets are recognized with suffix /.
################################################################################
%/.:
        mkdir -p $@

clean:
        rm -rf bin



I don't know if this is of any use to you, but here is the seg fault message:




$ make clean; make bin/sw/libfoobar.a
rm -rf bin
*** glibc detected *** make: free(): invalid next size (fast): 
0x0000000001c69650 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/libc.so.6[0x3c8347da76]
/lib64/libc.so.6[0x3c8347ed5e]
make[0x40e24e]
make[0x40e49f]
make[0x419fd6]
make[0x41a5a7]
make[0x403a9b]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)[0x3c8342169d]
make[0x404205]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00429000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 658278                             
/usr/bin/make
00628000-00629000 r--p 00028000 fd:01 658278                             
/usr/bin/make
00629000-0062b000 rw-p 00029000 fd:01 658278                             
/usr/bin/make
0062b000-0062c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
01c46000-01c88000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
3c82c00000-3c82c22000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 2883642                        
/lib64/ld-2.14.90.so
3c82e21000-3c82e22000 r--p 00021000 fd:01 2883642                        
/lib64/ld-2.14.90.so
3c82e22000-3c82e23000 rw-p 00022000 fd:01 2883642                        
/lib64/ld-2.14.90.so
3c82e23000-3c82e24000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
3c83400000-3c835ad000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 2883661                        
/lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
3c835ad000-3c837ad000 ---p 001ad000 fd:01 2883661                        
/lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
3c837ad000-3c837b1000 r--p 001ad000 fd:01 2883661                        
/lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
3c837b1000-3c837b3000 rw-p 001b1000 fd:01 2883661                        
/lib64/libc-2.14.90.so
3c837b3000-3c837b8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
3c84c00000-3c84c15000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 2886553                        
/lib64/libgcc_s-4.6.3-20120306.so.1
3c84c15000-3c84e14000 ---p 00015000 fd:01 2886553                        
/lib64/libgcc_s-4.6.3-20120306.so.1
3c84e14000-3c84e15000 rw-p 00014000 fd:01 2886553                        
/lib64/libgcc_s-4.6.3-20120306.so.1
7fe075a53000-7fe07be76000 r--p 00000000 fd:01 675985                     
/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
7fe07be76000-7fe07be79000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7fe07be9f000-7fe07bea1000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7ffffa0d2000-7ffffa0f3000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [stack]
7ffffa1ff000-7ffffa200000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                          [vdso]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                  
[vsyscall]
Aborted (core dumped)