Strange errors with port

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 05:25:28PM -0800, David Evans said:
> Since upgrading trunk from svn today, port randomly crashes with the
> following error types:
> 
> segmentation fault
> buss error
> 
> and my favorite
> 
> tclsh(16432,0xa000ed88) malloc: *** error for object 0x3128a0: incorrect
> checksum for freed object - object was probably modified after being
> freed, break at szone_error to debug
> tclsh(16432,0xa000ed88) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
> 
> The last one often (but not always) occurs at the end of the
> configuration phase.
> 
> I scrubbed base and updated from svn and reinstalled with no change in
> this behavior.
> 
> Has anyone else run into the same thing?

Yeah, it appears that 10.4 or at least tclsh on 10.4 doesn't like the method
I used to clear out the environment for the Tcl env bug.  I guess that
technique isn't quite so completely cross platform...

I'm putting together a safer version now and testing it on 10.3-10.5 this
time.

Bryan


> 
> Dave