In certain cases with a very broken xml (or entities) libxml2 will segfault configure.php has a --disable-segfault-error switch which attempts to avoid it. There is also a --enable-xml-details which should give you more info on why the build fails.
-Hannes On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Dallas Thunder <dal...@php.net> wrote: > Hi, I just updated an file in Chinese language tree, and strangely when I > use configure to validate it, it causing php execuable core dump. > > The updated file is "phpdoc/zh/trunk/language/**variables.xml" with > revision 329973. > > Honestly, I can't think of anything within xml file would causing php > itself fail. Error message in FreeBSD is: > > ... > Generating /root/phpdoc/doc-base/scripts/**file-entities.php... done > Iterating over extension specific version files... OK > Saving it... OK > Creating file /root/phpdoc/doc-base/**entities/file-entities.ent... done > Checking for if we should generate a simplified file... no > Checking whether to save an invalid .manual.xml... no > Loading and parsing manual.xml... Segmentation fault (core dumped) > root@DOCBSD:/root/phpdoc # > > And it's the same result withing Windows 7. At same point (Loading and > parsing manual.xml...) Windows will prompt for CLI stopped working. > > Any idea about this? Thanks. >
