make test segfaults with "--enable-shared" on Python 2.3.3

[Michael Hudson]

bhoel at web.de (Berthold Hoellmann) writes:

> Hello,
> 
> When I use 
> 
>   ./configure  --with-thread --with-fpectl --with-signal-module \
>      --with-pymalloc --enable-shared  --with-cxx=g++
> 
>   make test

What platform, compiler, and versions thereof?

> 
> on 2.3.3 I get 
> 
> ...
> test_queue
> test_quopri
> test_random
> test_re
> make: *** [test] Speicherzugriffsfehler (Speicherauszug erstellt)
> 
> gdb ./python core.29964
> GNU gdb 5.3.93
> Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> ...
> Reading symbols from /home/devel/compile/Python-2.3.3/build/lib.linux-i686-2.3/pyexpat.so...done.
> Loaded symbols for /home/devel/compile/Python-2.3.3/build/lib.linux-i686-2.3/pyexpat.so

[snippety]

> Some kind of "infinite" recursion?

Well, there's a test in tes_sre that uses quite a lot of C stack.  I
guess it's possible that something about shared library code uses more
stack.  Can you run 'ulimit -s <something larger>' and try again?

Cheers,
mwh

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