doxygen causes build error in xmtooling on PPC with Bus error (familiar malloc errors)

[barracuda156]

Another case of malloc errors with Doxygen, just reporting:

:info:build SRCDIR='.' PROJECT='xmltooling' DOCDIR='doc/api' VERSION='3.2.1' PERL_PATH='/opt/local/bin/perl' HAVE_DOT='YES' DOT_PATH='/opt/local/bin' GENERATE_MAN='NO' GENERATE_RTF='NO' GENERATE_XML='NO' GENERATE_HTMLHELP='NO' GENERATE_CHI='NO' GENERATE_HTML='YES' GENERATE_LATEX='NO' /opt/local/bin/doxygen ./doxygen.cfg
:info:build doxygen(14752) malloc: *** error for object 0xa0f15754: pointer being freed was not allocated
:info:build *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
:info:build doxygen(14752) malloc: *** error for object 0xa0f157c4: pointer being freed was not allocated
:info:build *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
:info:build warning: Tag 'USE_WINDOWS_ENCODING' at line 11 of file './doxygen.cfg' has become obsolete.
:info:build          To avoid this warning please remove this line from your configuration file or upgrade it using "doxygen -u"
:info:build warning: Tag 'DETAILS_AT_TOP' at line 33 of file './doxygen.cfg' has become obsolete.
:info:build          To avoid this warning please remove this line from your configuration file or upgrade it using "doxygen -u"
:info:build warning: Tag 'SHOW_DIRECTORIES' at line 70 of file './doxygen.cfg' has become obsolete.
:info:build          To avoid this warning please remove this line from your configuration file or upgrade it using "doxygen -u"
:info:build warning: Tag 'COLS_IN_ALPHA_INDEX' at line 133 of file './doxygen.cfg' has become obsolete.
:info:build          To avoid this warning please remove this line from your configuration file or upgrade it using "doxygen -u"
:info:build warning: Tag 'HTML_ALIGN_MEMBERS' at line 144 of file './doxygen.cfg' has become obsolete.
:info:build          To avoid this warning please remove this line from your configuration file or upgrade it using "doxygen -u"
:info:build warning: Tag 'XML_SCHEMA' at line 191 of file './doxygen.cfg' has become obsolete.
:info:build          To avoid this warning please remove this line from your configuration file or upgrade it using "doxygen -u"
:info:build warning: Tag 'XML_DTD' at line 192 of file './doxygen.cfg' has become obsolete.
:info:build          To avoid this warning please remove this line from your configuration file or upgrade it using "doxygen -u"
:info:build warning: Tag 'PERL_PATH' at line 225 of file './doxygen.cfg' has become obsolete.
:info:build          To avoid this warning please remove this line from your configuration file or upgrade it using "doxygen -u"
:info:build warning: Tag 'CLASS_DIAGRAMS' at line 229 of file './doxygen.cfg' has become obsolete.
:info:build          To avoid this warning please remove this line from your configuration file or upgrade it using "doxygen -u"
:info:build warning: Tag 'MAX_DOT_GRAPH_WIDTH' at line 245 of file './doxygen.cfg' has become obsolete.
:info:build          To avoid this warning please remove this line from your configuration file or upgrade it using "doxygen -u"
:info:build warning: Tag 'MAX_DOT_GRAPH_HEIGHT' at line 246 of file './doxygen.cfg' has become obsolete.
:info:build          To avoid this warning please remove this line from your configuration file or upgrade it using "doxygen -u"
:info:build doxygen(14752) malloc: *** error for object 0x13b22c0: pointer being freed was not allocated
:info:build *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
:info:build doxygen(14752) malloc: *** error for object 0x13b1928: pointer being freed was not allocated
:info:build *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
:info:build doxygen(14752) malloc: *** error for object 0x13b1890: pointer being freed was not allocated
:info:build *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
:info:build doxygen(14752) malloc: *** error for object 0x13b18dc: pointer being freed was not allocated
:info:build *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
:info:build doxygen(14752) malloc: *** error for object 0x13b17c8: pointer being freed was not allocated
:info:build *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
:info:build doxygen(14752) malloc: *** error for object 0x13b16a0: pointer being freed was not allocated
:info:build *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
:info:build doxygen(14752) malloc: *** error for object 0x13b15c0: pointer being freed was not allocated
:info:build *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
:info:build doxygen(14752) malloc: *** error for object 0x13b1630: pointer being freed was not allocated
:info:build *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
:info:build doxygen(14752) malloc: *** error for object 0x13b14f8: pointer being freed was not allocated
:info:build *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
:info:build doxygen(14752) malloc: *** error for object 0x13b2200: pointer being freed was not allocated
:info:build *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
:info:build doxygen(14752) malloc: *** error for object 0x13b2380: pointer being freed was not allocated
:info:build *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
:info:build doxygen(14752) malloc: *** error for object 0x13b238c: pointer being freed was not allocated
:info:build *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
:info:build doxygen(14752) malloc: *** error for object 0x13b23a8: pointer being freed was not allocated
:info:build *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

:info:build make[2]: *** [doc/api/xmltooling.tag] Bus error
:info:build make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_security_xmltooling/xmltooling/work/xmltooling-3.2.1'
:info:build make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
:info:build make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_security_xmltooling/xmltooling/work/xmltooling-3.2.1'
:info:build make: *** [all] Error 2

[kencu (Ken)]

I never heard if you tried redirecting the doxygen bins...

​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/5b1157f532660a0ad5f2a428084758ce240312eb/_resources/port1.0/group/legacysupport-1.1.tcl#L33

presumably after all these months of seeing the same error over and over, you did try it.

eg:

​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/5b1157f532660a0ad5f2a428084758ce240312eb/devel/cmake/Portfile#L58

[kencu (Ken)]

where is the original ticket for this doxygen issue? I don't seem to be able to find it right now...

[barracuda156]

Replying to kencu:

where is the original ticket for this doxygen issue? I don't seem to be able to find it right now...

To be honest I am not sure we had a dedicated Doxygen ticket for that.

I never heard if you tried redirecting the doxygen bins.

I think I tried and could not make it work that time, but I will try again. This error is getting rather annoying indeed, and no one knows when Iaian gets time to fix libstdc++.

[kencu (Ken)]

Yes indeed -- it's been broken nearly 5 years now, and only getting worse as more software won't build with the good-old-not-broken gcc-4.2/apple-gcc42 combo.

The more software that gets forced to gcc7+, the more breakage we can expect to see.

[barracuda156]

So just to document the issue, same error on 10.5.8

[barracuda156]

Replying to kencu:

Yes indeed -- it's been broken nearly 5 years now, and only getting worse as more software won't build with the good-old-not-broken gcc-4.2/apple-gcc42 combo.

The more software that gets forced to gcc7+, the more breakage we can expect to see.

I think your solution works. I will confirm it now with xmltooling – with imlib2 it worked! ​https://trac.macports.org/ticket/65770

[barracuda156]

Replying to kencu:

Yes, fixed! Thank you very much. Opening a PR for Doxygen.

[kencu (Ken)]

and now (sigh) to undo all those places where docs were disabled because of this, and revbump all those ports…

[barracuda156]

Replying to kencu:

and now (sigh) to undo all those places where docs were disabled because of this, and revbump all those ports…

I can track those. AFAIR, not many were there. At least, now this hopefully gonna work.

16. S. I definitely prefer doing less work with the same output than more :) So same error is not gonna be repeated.

[barracuda156]

In bc5a40ac27e0454062963ea3ac196d6de4dfbfad/macports-ports (master):

doxygen: redirect_bins to fix malloc errors with gcc
Fixes: #65814
Fixes: #65770