Hi Bill,
>I installed OpenSUSE 12.1 (32-bit) in a VMware host, in which I
>attempted to build 7.8.680. Sure enough, I got the errors that Stephen
>and Oleksii reported. GDB wasn't able to give me any useful
>information, as the stack frames were all trashed.
>
>I thought, that seems like maybe a machine-code problem, so I rebuilt
>with --without-machine-code and sure enough, it built and is currently
>running the testsuite.
>
>So, the answer is to use the following:
>
>make CONFIGUREARGS="--without-machine-code"
>
>and you should be OK. Please give this a try and let me know if you
>need any additional information, etc.
Can you try building (recent) Pike 7.9 in the same environment and
check if the new machine-code generator in Pike 7.9 solves the problem?
Thanks,
/grubba
