From: Renato Botelho Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:33:38 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.7.4 (and updates to older maintenance tracks) Message-ID: <2342B066-CDD4-4EA6-8AB4-AC093AAF4DA7@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: > On Mar 21, 2016, at 01:41, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > [cc:+Torsten] > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Jeff King wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 01:07:52PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Renato Botelho wrote: >>>> 2.7.4 fails to build on FreeBSD 9.x, that uses by default gcc 4.2.1. I’ve fixed it adding an extra dependency to make force it to require gcc 4.8+. Here is the output: >>>> >>>> combine-diff.c: In function 'diff_tree_combined': >>>> combine-diff.c:1391: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault: 11 >>> >>> Interesting. This appears to be the same bug as [1]. >>> >>> [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/287486/focus=287789 >> >> Yes. AFAICT that version of gcc is simply buggy, and we are not doing >> anything illegal or even particularly exotic. Given how old it is, I'm >> not sure it's worth worrying too much about it, but I am happy to work >> around it if somebody can figure out how to do so. >> >> I spent some time trying to bisect gcc, but had trouble getting a >> working build for a gcc that old. > > I installed FreeBSD 9 and managed to reproduce the compiler crash. > After a bit of experimentation, I devised a simple work-around and > submitted it as a patch[1]. > > [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/289397 Thank you! That works fine. -- Renato Botelho