Re: SIGSEGV in GNU bash, version 5.1.4(1)-release (sparc-sun-solaris2.10)

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/29/20 7:28 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> Firstly as a minor nit that seems to re-appear yearly there are still
> source files in the release tarballs that are not readable to a normal
> user :
>
> #
> #  find . -ls | grep '\-\-\-'
> 7348095   24 -rw------- 1 286 staff 38962 Jul  8 14:19 ./lib/malloc/malloc.c
> 7347442    1 -rw------- 1 286 staff   226 May 29  2020 ./tests/varenv20.sub
> #
> # chmod 644 ./lib/malloc/malloc.c  ./tests/varenv20.sub
>
> Trivial but annoyed as it throws the compile process out the window on
> the first initial pass.  Otherwise all goes well until we try to use the
> resultant bash binary.

I'll change those. A minor annoyance at best.

> I was very surprised to see :
>
> alpha $
> alpha $ dbx /opt/bw/bin/bash
> node_alpha-host_sun4u-zone_z_003-time_1609232628-pid_10009-uid_16411-gid_20002-fid_bash.core
> Reading bash
> core file header read successfully
> Reading ld.so.1
> Reading libreadline.so.8
> Reading libhistory.so.8

I can't reproduce this with the default configure and build options, on a
fresh install of Solaris 10 1/13 on Virtualbox. Maybe try building without
linking with an external readline library. There may be some
incompatibility between readline-8.0 and 8.1 that I'm not aware of.

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