kbuildsycoca5 crashing

[Jeremy Whiting]

Also, none of the recent patches on
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk?h=packages/qt5
make me nervous, all seem to be pretty straightforward. Could it be
lower level as in my glibc is too new, or the compiler itself (GCC
5.1.0)

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org> wrote:
> I see. Some kde applications segfault (klettres, okular) other's run
> ok (dolphin, khangman) I haven't tried others. As for qt binaries I
> checked the binaries that come with the arch package, and assistant,
> designer, qdbusviewer all work fine. Is there one in particular I
> should check?
>
> On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 8:45 AM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
>> On Sunday 10 May 2015 08:24:48 Jeremy Whiting wrote:
>>> Rebuilt kservice (and nuked my build folder and /usr/local just to be
>>> doubly sure.) kbuildsycoca5 still crashes with this same backtrace, no
>>> idea why. Could it be a bug in QtCore? Arch testing packages of Qt?
>>
>> I doubt it. More likely a compiler bug or a BIC or a miscompile.
>>
>> Try running a few Qt examples from your Qt build, to at least make sure that
>> works.
>>
>>> 0xffffffff is -1, no? did it get decreased one too many times somehow?
>>
>> You don't understand. This isn't the value of the refcount, it's the address
>> in memory of the variable holding the refcount.
>>
>> Which means a serious mixup somewhere lowlevel (e.g. compiler).
>>
>> --
>> David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
>> Working on KDE Frameworks 5
>>