On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:37:43PM -0700, s...@feb17.org wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 08:30:42PM -0700, s...@feb17.org wrote: > > > s...@feb17.org writes: > > > > > > > to realize it was segfaulting on the linux side. I've upgraded to > > > > 1.7.4 and the problem remains. I finally ran the operation with > > > > apache runnning in GDB and it's a strlen operation that fails. A lot > > > > of vars are optimized out so I didn't get much more information except > > > > that it appears to be trying to report a problem but then dying while > > > > reporting. > > > > > > > A little more information on this. I have probably rebuilt svn about 20 > times tonight from scratch, with > latest source from repository, and after upgrading libtools, autoconf, apr > etc. It failed the make check > tests every time. I finally tried a minimal configure with just the packages > needed to get it to build, > > e.g. > > ./configure --with-apr=/tools/apr > --with-apr-util=/tools/httpd-2.2.19-src/srclib/apr-util/ > --with-sqlite=/tools/sqlite-3.7.10 > > > versus: > > ./configure --prefix=/tools/subersion-1.7.4 --with-apr=/tools/apr > --with-apr-util=/tools/httpd-2.2.19-src/srclib/apr-util/ > --with-apxs=/tools/httpd-2.2.19/bin/apxs --with-neon=/tools/neon-0.29.0 > --with-sqlite=/tools/sqlite-3.7.10 --with-sasl=/tools/cyrus-sasl-2.1.25 > > > and it seems to be passing its tests fine now (it's not very useful built > this way, but that narrows down the problem). I'll add back in the extra > packages tomorrow till I find which one is breaking things. Thanks for your > patience and again if you have any ideas what is causing the problem, > I'd be very happy to know. What started as a simple attempt to check in some > code has cost a lot of time http://xkcd.com/349/ > > Darren
Why aren't you using pre-compiled binaries to save time? See http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html Given that you're building on 64bit Linux and you get crashes during format string parsing this could be a 32bit vs. 64bit library issue. I have no better ideas.
