[m-dev.] Things seg faulting everywhere

[Tyson Dowd]

On 15-Sep-1998, Andrew Bromage <bromage at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> G'day all.
> 
> I wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately I can't test it on other machines just now since
> > everything that I compile on non-alpha machines (tested: hydra,
> > mercury, kryten) stack dumps.
> 
> Sorry, that should have read "seg faults".
> 
> Here's the test for reproduction purposes:
> 
> <<
> hydra /home/mercury1/bromage/mercury/samples % mmake realclean
> hydra /home/mercury1/bromage/mercury/samples % mmake hello.depend
> hydra /home/mercury1/bromage/mercury/samples % mmake hello
> [Report includes:
> /home/mercury/public/mercury-latest/i586-unknown-linux/bin/ml: /bin/mkfifo: No such file or directory
> Looks suspicious, but it shouldn't cause the following error...]
> hydra /home/mercury1/bromage/mercury/samples % ./hello
> 
> *** Mercury runtime: caught segmentation violation ***
> PC at signal: 134549419 (8050fab)
> address involved: 0xfffffff4
> You can get a stack dump by using `--low-level-debug'
> exiting from signal handler
> >>

Your environment must be messed up, I can build hello just fine.

You aren't trying to build on hydra using mercury's compiler are you?
That won't work because they are very different setups (for instance
mkfifo is in different directories, and they are using incompatible
C libraries).

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