| Grex > Garage > #46: Backtalk build error |
| Backtalk build error | 
Dec 18 14:43 UTC 2017 |
I'm trying to build backtalk in my SDF account to try playing with the interpreter, but make fails with the following messages. Any ideas on what I can try to get the build to work? =========== gcc -I./../incl -g -O2 -o mksysdict ./mksysdict.c hash.o free.o -lcrypt -ldmalloc ./mksysdict sysdict.c ./../incl/sysdict.h *** Signal 11 Stop. make[1]: stopped in /sdf/arpa/ns/p/papa/src/backtalk-1.3.30/src *** Error code 1 Stop. make: stopped in /sdf/arpa/ns/p/papa/src/backtalk-1.3.30
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Dec 21 19:10 UTC 2017 |
Well, that's a segfault in `mksysdict`. I'm not sure why, but probably a bad pointer; possibly you ran out of memory? What's your ulimit set to? Try running that under gdb or something and getting a backtrace?
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Dec 22 20:15 UTC 2017 |
The log I was talking is in /var/log/bt-crash.log (back talk crash log). I took a quick at the last crash and it said: ------- Mon Dec 18 22:46:09 2017 ------- DIED: conf system variable is not set executing "open_conf" on line 23 of fronttalk/read.bt Version: Backtalk version 1.3.30 That might be part of the problem but there might be other bugs. Thanks for looking into it.
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Dec 28 06:59 UTC 2017 |
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Feb 28 12:33 UTC 2018 |
Today I made another attempt to build BT 1.4.12 on SDF's MetaARPA host (Linux). Reading UnixPapa's documention more closely, I got make to run successfully! Now I am stuck on installation step Part IVA: Installation with Backtalk Accounts <http://unixpapa.com/backtalk/devel/doc/install4a.html>. Setting up BT with a non-root ID still requires that some of the installation scripts be run under the web server user ID, which I don't have access to. It looks like the only way to set up BT is to have my own server or VPS. Any ideas on getting around this? I'd even take a partial installation with shell-only access for playing around.