Re: AVR32 segfaults / Disablng virtual/libintl?

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

Geoffrey Wossum wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've had some odd segfaults on my AVR32 system, mostly involving avahi (always
> on startup) and the occasional Xfbdev crash.  I didn't bother looking into it
> until now, because aplay was always crashing before it even got to main(),
> which was making difficult to test my sound CODEC.
>
> I found that both avahi-daemon and aplay were both crashing before they got to
> main(), and they both crashed due to infinite recursion calling the function
> _pthread_cleanup_push_defer().
>
> Due to the crash being in a thread related function, I focused my initial
> attention there, but now I think the problem is related to gettext.  If I
> hand compile aplay and keep it from linking against libintl, it doesn't
> crash.  Haven't tried the same thing on avahi, but I suspect libintl/gettext
> is also the problem there since they were crashing exactly the same way.
>
> I don't need any i18n any these types of applications.  As a workaround, can I
> keep gettext from being built and use the libintl stubs provided by uClibc?
> How do I do this?  PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libintl = ""?
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libintl = "uclibc"?

That should work as long as you have wchar and intl stubs in uclibc. I 
would *very* much like to use the uclibc ones instead of the gettext 
ones, if only to get cleaner builds :)

regards,

Koen

>
> TIA,
> ---
> Geoffrey