[docs] [Bug 261509] meinproc4: crash with segfault on Mac OS X

[Ian Wadham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261509

--- Comment #18 from Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> ---
See Jeremy Lavergne's original report of this bug on 2010-12-29.

AFAIK it has only ever occurred during large MacPorts builds, possibly/probably
on MacPorts servers that supply binaries and certainly on servers that are used
to test ports of FOSS software in general onto Apple OS X. The symptoms were
death of the entire build, with the loss of builds of many KDE modules and many
FOSS modules other than KDE. It would strike at random in most builds that
required meinproc4 to run --- but at varying points in the build.

At the time (2010) DrKonqi was not working at all in Apple OS X (beginning with
a crash in KCrash...), so no KDE crash report was available.

The solution adopted by the MacPorts developers was to make the default variant
for KDE builds to be "no documentation" --- a sad state of affairs, especially
for potential users of KDE software on Apple OS X, but better than having major
builds crashing.

DrKonqi, KCrash and successors in KF5 have been fixed in Apple OS X now. Stress
tests of meinproc4 on Apple OS X, by me and others, in our home machines, have
never experienced a failure.

Conversely, AFAIK, nobody has ever managed to persuade the MacPorts developers
to make "KDE with documentation" the default build, not even with versions of
KDE4, meinproc4 and DrKonqi more recent than 2010. So, again AFAIK, it is not
known if the original problem, reported in 2010 still exists.

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