[Samba] Building on debian 8.6

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 19:24 +0000, Jonathan Hunter via samba wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Despite having used samba for many, many years, I have not built from
> source on Debian before. CentOS, yes.. Raspbian, yes.. but not Debian
> itself.
> 
> I have installed Debian 8.6 from scratch:
> newserver:~/download/samba-4.5.2$ cat /etc/debian_version
> 8.6
> user at newserver:~/download/samba-4.5.2$ uname -a
> Linux newserver 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u2
> (2016-10-19) i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> and have installed all required packages as per:
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_Dependencies_Required_to_Build
> _Samba#Debian_.2F_Ubuntu
> 
> The build works perfectly up to a point.. then fails with a
> segmentation fault. Are there logs from the build process that I
> could
> look at, to try and figure out what's failing?
> 
> user at newserver:~/download/samba-4.5.2$ make distclean && ./configure
> && make
> [...]
> [3777/3902] Linking
> default/source4/ldap_server/libservice_module_ldap.so
> [3778/3902] Linking
> default/source4/wrepl_server/libservice_module_wrepl.so
> [3779/3902] pidl.1p: pidl/pidl -> bin/default/pidl/pidl.1p
> [3780/3902] Parse::Pidl::Dump.3pm: pidl/lib/Parse/Pidl/Dump.pm ->
> bin/default/pidl/Parse::Pidl::Dump.3pm
> [3781/3902] Parse::Pidl::Wireshark::Conformance.3pm:
> pidl/lib/Parse/Pidl/Wireshark/Conformance.pm ->
> bin/default/pidl/Parse::Pidl::Wireshark::Conformance.3pm
> [3782/3902] Parse::Pidl::Util.3pm: pidl/lib/Parse/Pidl/Util.pm ->
> bin/default/pidl/Parse::Pidl::Util.3pm
> [3783/3902] Parse::Pidl::NDR.3pm: pidl/lib/Parse/Pidl/NDR.pm ->
> bin/default/pidl/Parse::Pidl::NDR.3pm
> [3784/3902] Parse::Pidl::Wireshark::NDR.3pm:
> pidl/lib/Parse/Pidl/Wireshark/NDR.pm ->
> bin/default/pidl/Parse::Pidl::Wireshark::NDR.3pm
> [3785/3902] Generating manpages/smb.conf.5
> Segmentation fault
> Waf: Leaving directory `/home/user/download/samba-4.5.2/bin'
> Build failed:  -> task failed (err #139):
>         {task: manpages/smb.conf.5 smb.conf.5.xml,parameters.all.xml
> -> smb.conf.5}
> 
> There might be something missing from my Debian installation (I'm
> normally a CentOS man; this is the first time I've tried Debian - you
> can probably tell!), but I'm confused by the fact that the build
> segfaults, rather than ./configure telling me something is missing.

Yes, this is a painfully well known bug in the debian xsltproc package,
on i386 which doesn't seem to have a good resolution.

It is made worse by various kernel versions, due to the placement of
the stack, which overflows. 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1471029
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750593
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736077
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751764

Andrew Bartlett