Bug 81136 – caml-light emerge fails with *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description fabio oliveira 2005-02-07 09:52:00 UTC]

When emerging caml-light, it fails with this error:


*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0808c000 ***
make[1]: *** [stdlib.zo] Aborted
make[1]: *** Deleting file `stdlib.zo'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/caml-light-0.75/work/cl75/src/lib'
make: *** [world] Error 2

!!! ERROR: dev-lang/caml-light-0.75 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 41, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge caml-light

Actual Results:  
ERROR

Expected Results:  
Package emerged succesfully

Here's my emerge info:

Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb  7 2005, 12:23:16)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.22
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms userpriv
usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors1.netvisao.pt/gentoo
ftp://ftp.gentoo-pt.org/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/
http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/ http://gentoo.felisberto.net/
http://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/Linux/gentoo http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://10.10.10.138/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowx X alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dga
directfb divx4linux dvd dvdread encode ethereal f77 fam font-server foomaticdb
fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg
libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mpeg msn ncurses nls nvidia
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba
sdl spell sse ssl svga tcpd tga tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb
videos xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Matthieu Sozeau (RETIRED) 2005-02-08 04:51:12 UTC]

This may be a hardware problem on your side, i can't reproduce the bug although i have the same gcc version. Could you retry ?

[Comment 2 fabio oliveira 2005-02-08 05:14:11 UTC]

Tried, and the result is the same. The error occurs in this part:

../camlrun ../camlcomp -stdlib . -O none -g -W gc.ml
../camlrun ../camllibr -o stdlib.zo bool.zo eq.zo exc.zo int.zo fstring.zo string.zo fchar.zo char.zo float.zo list.zo fvect.zo vect.zo io.zo pair.zo arg.zo filename.zo hashtbl.zo lexing.zo parsing.zo printexc.zo sort.zo printf.zo stream.zo stack.zo queue.zo format.zo random.zo genlex.zo baltree.zo set.zo map.zo gc.zo
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0808c000 ***
make[1]: *** [stdlib.zo] Aborted

If you have any suggestion, I am more than happy to try it.

[Comment 3 Matthieu Sozeau (RETIRED) 2005-09-21 10:17:29 UTC]

No, i have no suggestion, and as caml-light is not really supported i guess 
you're alone in the dark here.