On 28/07/10 at 23:39 -0400, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> Mark Baker wrote:
> > [...] When I built approx 3.3.0 
> > from source, it worked (or at least didn't crash on startup, I didn't 
> > try to install it).
> 
> When I build approx 3.3.0 from source in stable, and then use sid's
> libpcre3, I get a segfault as well. Actually, the segfault can be
> reproduced very easily by compiling an empty file test.ml with the
> following command:
> 
>   ocamlc -I +pcre pcre.cma -linkall test.ml
> 
> and then running ./a.out. So I guess anything using OCaml pcre3 bindings
> will have the same issue. I am still narrowing down the bug...
> 
> Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > Upgrading libpcre3 from version 7.8-3 (in testing) to version 8.02-1 (in
> > unstable) causes approx 3.3.0 (in stable) to start segfaulting at startup 
> > (on amd64).
> 
> Is this the only reason why this bug is RC and pcre3 hasn't migrated to
> testing?

Well, the segfault is likely caused by a change in pcre3 that broke
ABI compatibility somehow. Don't you think that it is clearly RC ?
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