On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 03:43:30PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > Finally replying to this: > > I did use that system for a fresh build, but the sigfpe problem was > present in the tests for both bash and check (building from xorg). > > Then I booted the latest system (last night) and the check tests > succeeded. > > Today I've been running the check tests at various places. All > succeeded until (and including) completing my build of xorg. > > But I've now rebooted and run startx (with fluxbox, elogind and > rxvt-unidoe) : the check tests FAIL. I've been seeing this since we > first started to use 'check' a couple of years ago (at that point > I'd given up on trying to understand the bash tests, but looking > back I was getting the sigfpre failure then, so the common features > are startx (that was suid xorg in those days), and rxvt-unicode > (in those days I'll have been using icewm when building the next > system). > > I'll reboot in a minute to retry without xorg and rxvt-unicode. >
In fact I just closed X and used a tty - tests passed. So, I've been looking in the wrong place, it's embedded perl in rxvt-unicode: google found http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2013q3/001839.html and earlier in that thread was the link to the still-open issue at perl: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/12349 -- +++ OUT OF CHEESE ERROR. REDO FROM START +++ -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
