Re: Fix random crashes with gettext on alpha

2020-05-15 Thread Martijn van Duren
On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 18:48 +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Martijn van Duren: > > > So msgfmt crashes an insane amount of times on alpha (rough guess is 75% > > of the time) which is a pain when building other packages. > > That is odd. Why does this only happen on alpha? When did it star

Re: Fix random crashes with gettext on alpha

2020-05-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Martijn van Duren: > So msgfmt crashes an insane amount of times on alpha (rough guess is 75% > of the time) which is a pain when building other packages. That is odd. Why does this only happen on alpha? When did it start happening on alpha? Years ago I had an alpha and this is a "new" problem

Re: Fix random crashes with gettext on alpha

2020-05-14 Thread Theo de Raadt
Martijn van Duren wrote: > tl;dr: should we disable alloca in gettext and what's the best way to > do this if so? > > So msgfmt crashes an insane amount of times on alpha (rough guess is 75% > of the time) which is a pain when building other packages. > I managed to trace the issue to gettet-run