Building on OS X Lion

[David Shaw]

On Jul 25, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Nicholas Cole wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear List,
>>> 
>>> Building 1.4.11 on OS X Lion (Intel Core 2 Duo) fails with the following error:
>>> 
>>> Is this a known problem?
>> 
>> My mistake - I think I might have had some 3rd party libraries
>> confusing the build process!
> 
> But a rebuilt gpg is still failing with this error:
> 
> nicholas$ gpg --card-status
> gpg(97903) malloc: *** mmap(size=2608166010582208512) failed (error code=12)
> *** error: can't allocate region
> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
> gpg: out of  memory while allocating 26 bytes

Interesting.  2608166010582208512 in binary is 10010000110010000100010010101100000000000000000001000000000000.  Looks like the lower 32 bits are correct (being equal to 4096, which makes sense in this context), but the upper 32 bits are uninitialized or otherwise mangled.

I haven't upgraded to Lion yet, so I can't easily run this myself, but can you get a backtrace via gdb?  Just run gpg under gdb, and "break malloc_error_break", then "run --card-status".  It'll stop at the breakpoint, and you can then do "bt full".

David