[Slackbuilds-users] About vlc SBo

chris.willing at exemail.com.au chris.willing at exemail.com.au
Thu Nov 8 02:33:13 UTC 2018


> Hello,
>
> This email is to tell about a problem in building vlc and how it could
> be worked around.
>
> I was just updating a system here (x86_64 with multilib), running
> SlackBuilds manually to rebuild some old packages and experienced a
> problem with the binary vlc generated, which gave segfaults
> systematically.
>
> I tried to analyze the problem and found a piece of code inside
> pulseaudio which calls shm_open() (which is supplied from librt.so).
> Going further, I found that shm_open() tries to call __shm_directory()
> and this function - which is inside libpthread.so - is not correct
> linked for some reason. When the call is tried, the segfault
> happens.
>
> (yes, to find it I have to google a little; this article showed the
> trick:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47905554/segmentation-fault-appears-when-i-use-shared-memory-only-from-statically-build-p)
>
> I could find a way to work around it. The vlc binary, as it was built in
> the machine, required libpthread.so but not librt.so (verified by
> calling objdump -x vlc). I managed to add librt.so in the final link
> (using SLKLDFLAGS="-lrt") and the resulting vlc added librt.so as a
> "NEEDED" dependency. Installing the package, the problem was gone.
>
> Of course this is not happening in the majority of the installations,
> but as it happened here, it can happen anywhere.
>
> As I don't post here frequently, let me thank you contributors for the
> time devoted to the project.
>
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Luiz Carlos Ramos
> lramos.prof at yahoo.com.br
> São Paulo - Brazil
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Interesting. I’ll look into this some more when I’’m able to.

chris



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