[haiku-development] Re: Segmentation fault building jam on FreeBSD 9.0

  • From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:39:25 -0400

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Joseph Prostko <joe.prostko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:47 PM, John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I loaded up a FreeBSD 9 standard install, installed the pre-requsite
>> software, grabbed the buildtools from git, and ran gmake. I got the
>> following error:
>>
>> LINKLIBS= ./jam0
>> make: *** [all] Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped)
>
> I recall having this issue in the past when I was running PC-BSD 9,
> and the only way I found around it was to get jam from ports, and then
> jamming jam with it.  :)  Then just replace the ports version of jam
> with the new one, and you are done.  I recall trying other methods to
> work around this with the Makefile, but am not sure if I ever found a
> way to work around it.  My recollection could be wrong, but I think
> even just installing the the jam from ports was enough to make the
> Makefile work just fine, but I don't recall if that was before or
> after I had generated jam via the Jamfile method.  In any case, it
> made me scratch my head a bit.

Yes that worked, I installed jam from ports, did a jam and a jam
install and it installed Haiku's jam into /usr/local/bin. Thanks. I
guess the makefile is broken on FreeBSD.

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