in reply to SEGVs building Perl 5.10 on Solaris 10?

Presumably, the applicable ulimits are not (too) restrictive ?

If nothing else crops up, it might be worthwhile downloading & installing the SUNWscat package - which will give you extended crash analysis capability on the generated core file - which is a useful tool to have on a Solaris box anyway.

If you're interested, I can recommend 'Panic! Unix System Crash Dump Analysis' by Drake & Brown - it does have a leaning toward (rather old, but nontheless pertinent) Solaris, but seeks to maintain a general approach - I got my copy, 2nd hand, via Amazon UK.

Update:

Added book ref.

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

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Re^2: SEGVs building Perl 5.10 on Solaris 10?
by Llew_Llaw_Gyffes (Scribe) on Apr 24, 2009 at 13:25 UTC
    Applicable ulimits shouldn't be a problem, as I'm working as root at the moment. The SUNWscat pointer is a useful one, and I shall try it right away to see whether it sheds any light. Thanks. :)
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      Presumably, you've already been down the truss(1M) road in an attempt to identify the root cause ...

      A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))
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        Yes. Truss tells me it's an out-of-bounds address fault, apparently just after opening lib/strict.pm: 
        read(3, " # ! . / m i n i p e r l".., 4096)     = 4096
stat("lib/strict.pmc", 0xFFFFFD7FFFDFD710)      Err#2 ENOENT
stat("lib/strict.pm", 0xFFFFFD7FFFDFD670)       = 0
open("lib/strict.pm", O_RDONLY)                 = 4
ioctl(4, TCGETA, 0xFFFFFD7FFFDFD430)            Err#25 ENOTTY
lseek(4, 0, SEEK_CUR)                           = 0
brk(0x00757EC0)                                 = 0
brk(0x0075BEC0)                                 = 0
read(4, " p a c k a g e   s t r i".., 4096)     = 3716
brk(0x0075BEC0)                                 = 0
brk(0x0075FEC0)                                 = 0
brk(0x0075FEC0)                                 = 0
brk(0x00763EC0)                                 = 0
lseek(4, 878, SEEK_SET)                         = 878
lseek(4, 0, SEEK_CUR)                           = 878
close(4)                                        = 0
    Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS  %pc = 0x004C2F24
      siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x004C2F24
    Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default]
      siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x004C2F24

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        ...but doesn't really shed any light on why I'm getting an address fault there. I was hoping someone else had tried this build or a similar combination, run into the same problem, and knew a simple configuration change to solve it.
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