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Bug 1563466 - guile broken on big-endian architectures?
Summary: guile broken on big-endian architectures?
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: guile
Version: 28
Hardware: s390x
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miroslav Lichvar
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F-ExcludeArch-s390x PPCTracker
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Reported: 2018-04-04 01:51 UTC by Bill Nottingham
Modified: 2019-05-28 19:49 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-05-28 19:49:34 UTC
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Description Bill Nottingham 2018-04-04 01:51:41 UTC 
Description of problem:

guile is segfaulting when compiling certain scheme files on big-endian arches.

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=26153710

Both the s390x and ppc64 builds fail.

ppc64:
[ 43%] Generating ../../lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.0/gnucash/unittest-support.go
cd /builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/common/test-core && /usr/bin/cmake -E env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64:/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash: GNC_UNINSTALLED=YES GNC_BUILDDIR=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0 GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/common/test-core GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.0 GNC_MODULE_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64:/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash: /usr/bin/guile -e '(@@ (guild) main)' -s /usr/bin/guild compile -o /builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.0/gnucash/unittest-support.go /builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/common/test-core/unittest-support.scm
make[2]: Leaving directory '/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0'
Segmentation fault
make[2]: *** [common/test-core/CMakeFiles/scm-test-core.dir/build.make:65: lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.0/gnucash/unittest-support.go] Error 1

s390x:
[ 49%] Generating ../../lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.0/gnucash/gettext.go
cd /builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/libgnucash/app-utils && /usr/bin/cmake -E env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64:/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash: GNC_UNINSTALLED=YES GNC_BUILDDIR=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0 GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/libgnucash/app-utils GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.0 GNC_MODULE_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64:/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash: /usr/bin/guile -e '(@@ (guild) main)' -s /usr/bin/guild compile -o /builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.0/gnucash/gettext.go /builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/libgnucash/app-utils/gettext.scm
make[2]: Leaving directory '/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0'
Segmentation fault
make[2]: *** [libgnucash/app-utils/CMakeFiles/scm-gettext.dir/build.make:65: lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.0/gnucash/gettext.go] Error 1

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
guile-2.0.14-7.fc28

How reproducible:

100% 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. attempt to build gnucash

Actual results:

works

Expected results:

weird segfaults

Additional info:

It's consistent on the same files so far. Have not extracted a backtrace yet.
Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2018-04-04 07:42:29 UTC 
I suspect this will be tricky for debugging.

The gnucash-3.0 announcement says they now support guile-2.2. Have you tried it?
Comment 2 Dan Horák 2018-04-04 08:07:27 UTC 
Is this problem tied to some gnucash or guile version?
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2018-04-04 14:12:59 UTC 
Happened in F28 and rawhide (crashes in same place). Does not happen in F27. So it may be gcc-8 related.

I have not tried guile-2.2 yet.

I should be able to  at least get a backtrace with access to a test VM, but I don't have that at the moment.
Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2018-04-04 15:23:29 UTC 
... actually, it does happen on F27 as well. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=26167995
Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2018-04-04 15:34:50 UTC 
guile 2.2 is similarly broken:

s390x:
...
[ 49%] Generating ../../lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.2/gnucash/gettext.go
cd /builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/libgnucash/app-utils && /usr/bin/cmake -E env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64:/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash: GNC_UNINSTALLED=YES GNC_BUILDDIR=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0 GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/libgnucash/app-utils GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.2 GNC_MODULE_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64:/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash: /usr/bin/guile2.2 -e '(@@ (guild) main)' -s /usr/bin/guild2.2 compile -o /builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.2/gnucash/gettext.go /builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/libgnucash/app-utils/gettext.scm
make[2]: Leaving directory '/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0'
Segmentation fault
make[2]: *** [libgnucash/app-utils/CMakeFiles/scm-gettext.dir/build.make:65: lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.2/gnucash/gettext.go] Error 1
...

ppc64:
...
make[2]: Entering directory '/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0'
[ 43%] Generating ../../lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.2/gnucash/gettext.go
cd /builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/libgnucash/app-utils && /usr/bin/cmake -E env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64:/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash: GNC_UNINSTALLED=YES GNC_BUILDDIR=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0 GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/libgnucash/app-utils GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.2 GNC_MODULE_PATH=/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64:/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash: /usr/bin/guile2.2 -e '(@@ (guild) main)' -s /usr/bin/guild2.2 compile -o /builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.2/gnucash/gettext.go /builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0/libgnucash/app-utils/gettext.scm
make[2]: Leaving directory '/builddir/build/BUILD/gnucash-3.0'
Segmentation fault
make[2]: *** [libgnucash/app-utils/CMakeFiles/scm-gettext.dir/build.make:65: lib64/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.2/gnucash/gettext.go] Error 1
...
Comment 6 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 19:18:27 UTC 
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Comment 7 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 21:58:20 UTC 
This message is a reminder that Fedora 28 is nearing its end of life.
On 2019-May-28 Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for
Fedora 28. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases
that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as
EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '28'.

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plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not 
able to fix it before Fedora 28 is end of life. If you would still like 
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Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
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Comment 8 Ben Cotton 2019-05-28 19:49:34 UTC 
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