On arm64, the bash gettext configure test causes binutils to segv:
configure:8453: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=
format-security -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -static conftest.c
>&5
conftest.c: In function 'main':
conftest.c:116:8: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
return (int) gettext ("") + (int) ngettext ("", "", 0) + _nl_msg_cat_cntr + *_nl_domain_bindings
^
conftest.c:116:29: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
return (int) gettext ("") + (int) ngettext ("", "", 0) + _nl_msg_cat_cntr + *_nl_domain_bindings
^
collect2: error: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault], core dumped
configure:8453: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "bash"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "bash"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "4.3-release"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "bash 4.3-release"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "<email address hidden>"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define ALIAS 1
| #define PUSHD_AND_POPD 1
| #define RESTRICTED_SHELL 1
| #define PROCESS_SUBSTITUTION 1
| #define PROMPT_STRING_DECODE 1
| #define SELECT_COMMAND 1
| #define HELP_BUILTIN 1
| #define ARRAY_VARS 1
| #define DPAREN_ARITHMETIC 1
| #define BRACE_EXPANSION 1
| #define COMMAND_TIMING 1
| #define EXTENDED_GLOB 1
| #define EXTGLOB_DEFAULT 0
| #define COND_COMMAND 1
| #define COND_REGEXP 1
| #define COPROCESS_SUPPORT 1
| #define ARITH_FOR_COMMAND 1
| #define NETWORK_REDIRECTIONS 1
| #define PROGRAMMABLE_COMPLETION 1
| #define DEBUGGER 1
| #define CASEMOD_ATTRS 1
| #define CASEMOD_EXPANSIONS 1
| #define GLOBASCII_DEFAULT 0
| #define MEMSCRAMBLE 1
| #define STDC_HEADERS 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
| #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
| #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| #define __EXTENSIONS__ 1
| #define _ALL_SOURCE 1
| #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
| #define _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 1
| #define _TANDEM_SOURCE 1
| #define READLINE 1
| #define HISTORY 1
| #define BANG_HISTORY 1
| #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
| #define HAVE_STRINGIZE 1
| #define HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE_WIDER 1
| #define HAVE_LONG_DOUBLE 1
| #define PROTOTYPES 1
| #define __PROTOTYPES 1
| #define restrict __restrict
| #define HAVE_ALLOCA_H 1
| #define HAVE_ALLOCA 1
| #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_TIME_H 1
| #define HAVE_GETPAGESIZE 1
| #define HAVE_MMAP 1
| #define INTDIV0_RAISES_SIGFPE 0
| #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H_WITH_UINTMAX 1
| #define HAVE_STDINT_H_WITH_UINTMAX 1
| #define HAVE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG 1
| #define HAVE_UINTMAX_T 1
| #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_ARGZ_H 1
| #define HAVE_LIMITS_H 1
| #define HAVE_LOCALE_H 1
| #define HAVE_NL_TYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_MALLOC_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDDEF_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H 1
| #define HAVE_FEOF_UNLOCKED 1
| #define HAVE_FGETS_UNLOCKED 1
| #define HAVE_GETC_UNLOCKED 1
| #define HAVE_GETCWD 1
| #define HAVE_GETEGID 1
| #define HAVE_GETEUID 1
| #define HAVE_GETGID 1
| #define HAVE_GETUID 1
| #define HAVE_MEMPCPY 1
| #define HAVE_MUNMAP 1
| #define HAVE_PUTENV 1
| #define HAVE_SETENV 1
| #define HAVE_SETLOCALE 1
| #define HAVE_LOCALECONV 1
| #define HAVE_STPCPY 1
| #define HAVE_STRCASECMP 1
| #define HAVE_STRDUP 1
| #define HAVE_STRTOUL 1
| #define HAVE_TSEARCH 1
| #define HAVE___ARGZ_COUNT 1
| #define HAVE___ARGZ_STRINGIFY 1
| #define HAVE___ARGZ_NEXT 1
| #define HAVE___FSETLOCKING 1
| #define HAVE_ICONV 1
| #define ICONV_CONST
| #define HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET 1
| #define HAVE_LC_MESSAGES 1
| /* end confdefs.h. */
| #include <libintl.h>
| extern int _nl_msg_cat_cntr;
| extern int *_nl_domain_bindings;
| int
| main ()
| {
| bindtextdomain ("", "");
| return (int) gettext ("") + (int) ngettext ("", "", 0) + _nl_msg_cat_cntr + *_nl_domain_bindings
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:8461: result: no
[Test case]
Build bash SRU, it should find system gettext, and compile properly.
[Regression Potential]
ld will stop crashing in some cases, which could potentially change some dependencies for SRUs (if their configure test failed due to an ld crash).
ii binutils 2.24-5ubuntu14.1 arm64 GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities
ii gcc-4.8 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~
ii libc6:arm64 2.19-0ubuntu6.9 arm64 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libc6-dev:arm64 2.19-0ubuntu6.9 arm64 Embedded GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files