Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ben Franksen <[email protected]> · Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:25:16 +0100

Am 08.03.2017 um 12:01 schrieb Ralph Lange:
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Ben Franksen <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The problem (and mystery!) is the absence of any message in the make
>> output under 3.15 that would indicate that snc crashed; whereas under
>> 3.14 I do see such a message in the make output. I can reproduce this
>> behavior reliably, regardless of the -j and -s make switches. My
>> conclusion is that something was changed in the build system between
>> 3.14 and 3.15 that causes the crash message ("segmentation fault (core
>> dumped)") to be suppressed, probably as an unintended side-effect.
>
> Have you verified the return code of the segfaulting command? I think
make
> uses that to determine if the command failed. IIRC, we had cases in Base
> where a failing script would not return 0 because of an output
redirection.
> Something in that area?

The program that crashed is snc which is a binary, not a script. Also
note that the make run /does/ fail in both cases (see the output I
posted). It just supresses the crash /message/ (which supposedly comes
from the system or the shell).

Cheers
Ben

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