Fail to compile on SPARC Linux

[Obey Arthur Liu]

FYI, I opened a bug in the Debian Bug Tracking System:
http://bugs.debian.org/574783

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Obey Arthur Liu <arthur at milliways.fr> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am the maintainer of the Virtuoso package at Debian[1]. Virtuoso is
> important to us because we strive to have package working on all our
> supported architectures and Virtuoso is a dependency of recommended features
> of newer versions of KDE.
> I am working hard to make sure that Virtuoso compiles and works properly on
> all platforms.
> I have so far squashed porting issues on FreeBSD kernel and ARM of Debian
> but SPARC is still problematic[2].
>
> I suspect it is a memory alignment issue, similarly to the ARM fix[3],
> although my attempts at fixing them similarly[ftbfs-sparc.patch attached]
> have not been successful yet.
>
> Here's the crash without any patching (full backtrace further below):
> Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
> sequence_next_inc_1 (name=0x1391148 "RDF_PREF_SEQ", in_map=0,
> inc_by=1, err_ret=0x0) at regist.c:714
> 714             res = (*place);
> Location[4].
>
> Note that I compile with the --with-debug/ configure flag.
>
> After compiling for a while, I see:
> Waiting Virtuoso Server start on port 1111...
> Waiting Virtuoso Server start on port 1111...
> Waiting Virtuoso Server start on port 1111...
> At this point, I just Ctrl-C the build. It has already crashed.
>
> Now, to reproduce the crash:
> cd binsrc/rdf_mappers
> rm vad.db
> # This should crash:
> ../virtuoso/virtuoso-t +wait +foreground +debug +configfile virtuoso.ini
> # Now to make it crash again, wipe the database and run it again under gdb:
> rm vad.db
> gdb --args ../virtuoso/virtuoso-t +wait +foreground +debug +configfile
> virtuoso.ini
>
>
> Full backtrace:
> (gdb) bt
> #0  sequence_next_inc_1 (name=0x1391148 "RDF_PREF_SEQ", in_map=0,
> inc_by=1, err_ret=0x0) at regist.c:714
> #1  0x001e737c in tb_new_id_and_name (lt=0xa48290, itc=0xffe81d98,
> tb=0x133a528,
>    name=0x1391318 "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#",
> value_seq_name=0x4d0870 "RDF_PREF_SEQ") at rdf_core.c:1629
> #2  0x001e7690 in tb_name_to_id (lt=0xa48290, tb_name=0x4d0848
> "DB.DBA.RDF_PREFIX",
>    name=0x1391318 "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#",
> value_seq_name=0x4d0870 "RDF_PREF_SEQ") at rdf_core.c:1747
> #3  0x001e87e4 in key_name_to_iri_id_1 (lt=0xa48290, name=0xe36268
> "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#sameAs", make_new=1)
>    at rdf_core.c:1882
> #4  0x001ea6e0 in iri_to_id (qst=0x1391208, name=0xe36268
> "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#sameAs", mode=1, err_ret=0xffe82b3c)
>    at rdf_core.c:2248
> #5  0x001eab74 in bif_iri_to_id (qst=0x1391208, err_ret=0xffe82ba4,
> args=0x13b2898) at rdf_core.c:2281
> #6  0x0016e094 in ins_call_bif (ins=0x1391190, qst=0x1391208,
> code_vec=0x1391190) at sqlintrp.c:285
> #7  0x00172db4 in code_vec_run_1 (code_vec=0x1391190, qst=0x1391208,
> offset=0) at sqlintrp.c:2004
> #8  0x00198144 in qn_input (xx=0x1266980, inst=0x1391208,
> state=0x1391208) at sqlrun.c:682
> #9  0x0019ca14 in qr_exec (cli=0xa46a98, qr=0x1390d50, caller=0x1,
> cr_name=0x0, stmt=0x0, lc_ret=0xffe82f5c, parms=0x130dd70,
>    opts=0x0, named_params=1) at sqlrun.c:3172
> #10 0x0019d304 in qr_quick_exec (qr=0x1390d50, cli=0xa46a98,
> id=0x5a1e58 "", lc_ret=0xffe82f5c, n_pars=<value optimized out>)
>    at sqlrun.c:3727
> #11 0x001ee6c0 in sas_init () at rdfinf.c:999
> #12 0x001e80ac in rdf_core_init () at rdf_core.c:3293
> #13 0x001a6524 in srv_global_init (mode=0x5a1e58 "") at sqlsrv.c:3844
> #14 0x000480d4 in main (argc=6, argv=0x9bcd30) at viunix.c:657
>
> By the way, my incantation for an incremental compilation for any edited
> files under libsrc/Wi/:
> $ cd libsrc/Wi/ && make clean && cd ../..
>
> Do you know how to fix this?
> We are trying to get Virtuoso working on all our release platform so that
> the soon upcoming Debian "Squeeze" 6.0 release can has a KDE with Semantic
> Web functionalities on all platforms, powered by Virtuoso.
> Cheers
>
> Arthur
>
>
> [1] <http://packages.qa.debian.org/v/virtuoso-opensource.html>
> [2] <https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=virtuoso-opensource>
> [3]
> <https://alioth.debian.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pkg-virtuoso/pkg-virtuoso.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/ftbfs-armel.patch;h=537d80cbadcee6ff1989423996ee56081bfecf16;hb=e6e9276c42ee01dcc3436fe72f73000cb0e28f69>
> [4]
> <https://alioth.debian.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pkg-virtuoso/pkg-virtuoso.git;a=blob;f=libsrc/Wi/regist.c;h=3a806cf5b4da627f0828f8702f1aa540af957223;hb=HEAD#l714>
>
>