VirtualBox 3.1: 'configure' script failure, gcc segv

[Adek336]

Problem occurs in VirtualBox 3.1 with recent hrev35350 and older hrev34722. Problem does not occur in VirtualBox 3.0 with hrev34722.

Symptoms: when running a configure script from a package, for example less ​http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less/less-418.tar.gz, entries like this appear in config.log:

configure:3681: checking for initscr in -lxcurses
configure:3716: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lxcurses   >&5
./configure: line 3717:   858 Segmentation violation  $CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS 1>&5
configure:3722: $? = 139
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "less"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "less"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "less 1"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
|
| /* Override any GCC internal prototype to avoid an error.
|    Use char because int might match the return type of a GCC
|    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
| #ifdef __cplusplus
| extern "C"
| #endif
| char initscr ();
| int
| main ()
| {
| return initscr ();
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:3740: result: no

and

configure:3614: checking for tgoto in -ltinfo
configure:3649: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -ltinfo   >&5
/boot/develop/abi/x86/gcc4/tools/gcc-4.3.3-haiku-090629/bin/../lib/gcc/i586-pc-haiku/4.3.3/../../../../i586-pc-haiku/bin/ld: cannot find -ltinfo
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:3655: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:

In the second example we see gcc operational (attempt to compile and bail on linkage error) which means that the segv in the first example occurs in gcc (when no linkage error interferes) and not in sh.

[mmadia]

Seeing as 34722 works in VB 3.0, but not VB 3.1, closing this as an issue local to VirtualBox.