Opened 17 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#413 closed Bugs (Fixed)

TOP environment variable crashes installation via bjam

Reported by: cxdunn Owned by: nobody
Milestone: Component: None
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Description

Immediate segmentation fault running bjam!

I found the cause:

I had TOP=all set as an environment variable. (This
tells the UNIX utility 'top' my default settings.) That
causes bjam to crash, which prevents installation of boost.

I don't mind that bjam uses "TOP", but it shouldn't seg
fault. This was not easy to track down. (I compared my
environment with that of a friend who could compile
boost, and changed everything one at a time.  It took
hours.) Probably, if somebody else has this problem,
he'll never even figure out the cause. So this really
needs to be changed.

Op System: Red Hat Linux
boost 1.32
g++ 3.4.3

Change History (1)

comment:1 by René Rivera, 17 years ago

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Already fixed in CVS as of: Mon May 9 20:46:50 2005 UTC.
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