Bug#792921: [sparc64] linking against libx264 crashes runtime linker

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun
<andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 20.07.2015 17:18, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Andreas Cadhalpun
>> <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
>>> 0xfffff8010000cda4 in elf_dynamic_do_Rela (skip_ifunc=<optimized out>, lazy=0, nrelative=<optimized out>, relsize=<optimized out>, reladdr=<optimized out>, map=0xfffff80100023570) at do-rel.h:111
>>
>> Usually a corrupted library. Check md5sums.
>
> I don't think this problem is caused by a corrupted libx264.
>
> First, it's also happening on the sparc64 buildds, see e.g. [1].
> Second, I rebuilt the current x264 locally and it shows the same problem.

Does the problem always reproduce or just sometimes?

If it's just sometimes then it's much much harder to figure out what's wrong.

You'll need a dedicated person to track down exactly what is the
concurrency issue and why it's failing.

Cheers,
Carlos.