[tex-live] [2011 pretest] xindy crashes on NetBSD

Marc Baudoin babafou at babafou.eu.org
Fri Nov 11 09:38:05 CET 2011


Joachim Schrod <jschrod at acm.org> écrit :
> Marc Baudoin wrote:
> > 
> > I was saying a few months ago:
> >> 
> >> As I noticed NetBSD/i386 binaries have just been integrated into
> >> TeX Live 2011 pretest, I did a fresh install this morning and
> >> tested it on a few documents. 
> >> 
> >> Reading raw-index "/tmp/qFGZnlYOSq"...
> >> *** - handle_fault error2 ! address = 0xf615cb1c not in [0x67ffd2d0,0x6809e000) !
> >> SIGSEGV cannot be cured. Fault address = 0xf615cb1c.
> > 
> > I see there has been a xindy update this week in TeX Live 2011 so
> > I tested it.
> > 
> > The new xindy works fine on the one-line test index above but
> > still crashes on real (1 to 6 pages) indexes with the same
> > message as before or with:
> 
> Try to find xindy executables (xindy.run & xindy.mem) from TL 2010.
> Replace the TL 2011 files with the 2010 files. It should work.

I've been doing that for the past few months.

> The problem seems to be CLISP 2.49. It didn't work on MacOS X
> either, and caused other problems on Debian as well. Going back to
> an earlier CLISP version solved the problem. I haven't been able to
> reproduce the crashes, though, as I have neither NetBSD nor a Mac.
> 
> But not all is lost. ;-) Christoph Badura, one of the NetBSD
> developers, is a good friend of mine. He'll visit me next week;
> I'll see if we'll find the time to reproduce and investigate the
> issue together.

That would be great, thanks.


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