Problem in malloc.c, rev. 1.183 while building phonon-4.2.0

[Kyle Allender]

Jason Evans wrote:
> Kyle Allender wrote:
>> Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 07:34:17AM -0600, Kyle Allender wrote:
>>>> Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 07:06:32AM -0600, Kyle Allender wrote:
>>>>>> Hello.
>>>>>> Generating mediaobjecttest.moc
>>>>>> Assertion failed: ((ret << BLOCK_COST_2POW) != 0), function 
>>>>>> malloc_spin_lock, file /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c, line 1287.
>>>>>> Abort trap (core dumped)
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> this assertion has been fixed yesterday (svn r185483).
>>>> Should I rerun build/installworld before re-attempting the kde build 
>>>> or just run make clean in the phonon directory?
>>>
>>> You need at least an updated libc.  build/installworld will do that but
>>> there are faster ways for this small update.  After that you can
>>> continue building kde.
>>>
>> OK.  I've kicked off a buildworld as that's about the only method I 
>> know that will resolve this issue.  The "faster ways" I'm unaware of - 
>> if someone could enlighten me, that'd be great.  Buildworld will work 
>> in the meantime, though.
> 
> In this case of libc, it's usually a good idea to do the full 
> buildworld, since libc gets statically linked into various toolchain 
> binaries.  Fortunately, this bug in malloc only affects multi-threaded 
> applications; otherwise you'd have an unrecoverable system (though I 
> would have noticed that before committing).
> 
> Jason
> 

I ended up issuing a cd /usr/src/lib/libc; cd /usr/src/lib/libc; make && 
make install which did the trick - the KDE4 installation was able to 
proceed after that.  I appreciate your help and will make a note of the 
better ways to do what I was after this morning.

I would suppose I should go ahead and kick off a buildworld when the kde 
build completes later this evening.  Will that necessitate having to 
rebuild the ports or would that be possible to put off until a later 
time?  The system should remain stable correct?

K