ocaml/dune
Dune segfaults during bootstrap on ppc64: `make: *** [release] Segmentation fault`
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#12.063 aberto em 22 de jul. de 2025
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Description
Expected Behavior
Build should work normally, as it does on ppc (32-bit).
Actual Behavior
Build segfaults: generated dune.exe is corrupt.
---> Configuring ocaml-dune
Executing: cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_macos-powerpc.org_macos-powerpc_PPCPorts_ports_ocaml_ocaml-dune/ocaml-dune/work/dune-3.19.1" && ./configure --bindir /opt/local/bin --datadir /opt/local/share/ocaml-dune --docdir /opt/local/share/doc --etcdir /opt/local/etc --libdir /opt/local/lib/ocaml/site-lib --mandir /opt/local/share/man --sbindir /opt/local/sbin
---> Building ocaml-dune
Executing: cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_macos-powerpc.org_macos-powerpc_PPCPorts_ports_ocaml_ocaml-dune/ocaml-dune/work/dune-3.19.1" && DUNE_CONFIG__COPY_FILE=portable /usr/bin/make release
ocamlc -output-complete-exe -w -24 -g -o .duneboot.exe -I boot unix.cma boot/[libs.ml](http://libs.ml/) boot/[duneboot.ml](http://duneboot.ml/)
./.duneboot.exe
make: *** [release] Segmentation fault
(gdb) run
Starting program: /opt/local/var/macports/build/ocam5353a6/work/dune-3.19.1/_boot/dune.exe
warning: posix_spawn failed, trying execvp, error: 86
Reading symbols for shared libraries +. done
Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x0000000000000000
0x00007fff81b9fae8 in strlen ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007fff81b9fae8 in strlen ()
#1 0x00007fff81bd5f3c in realpath$DARWIN_EXTSN ()
#2 0x0000000100006550 in unix_realpath ()
#3 0x0000000100014914 in caml_interprete ()
#4 0x0000000100017204 in caml_startup_code ()
#5 0x000000010003811c in main ()
Reproduction
Run the build on Darwin for ppc64.
Specifications
- Version of
dune(output ofdune --version): 3.19.1 - Version of
ocaml(output ofocamlc --version): 4.14.2 - Operating system (distribution and version): macOS 10.5.8
P. S. I suspect nobody has the set-up to reproduce this, so advice on how to debug this will be very helpful. The log is rather useless, it is not even clear where exactly it fails.