[xml] Libxml2 2.7.1 build failed: make tests on SuSE 9.x ia64

["Mark Lavi" <mlavi sgi com>]

Howdy,
 
This is my first time posting here after checking the FAQ, the bug
database, and the September postings to this mailing list archive, but I
could not find any similar report for my issue.
 
I've recently built, tested, installed, and then used libxml2 2.6.32
with PHP 5.2.6 successfully on SuSE 9.x ia64 as well as on RedHat 5.x
with ia64 and on x86.
 
However, today I built libxml2 2.7.1 just fine on RedHat 5.x ia64 and
x86 but I encountered a problem with SuSE 9.x ia64. Namely, make tests
fails... here's the output from my automated build process with Phing
(an Ant clone written in PHP). Each step (configure, make, etc.)
proceeds unless there is an error.
 
 [myunpack] [omitted]/src/libxml2-2.7.1.tar.gz found, uncompressing...
 [myunpack] Archive found (tar), expanding...
 [myunpack] set libxml2.dir
     [exec] Executing command: ./configure --prefix=/data/bootstrap
--without-python --with-zlib=/data/bootstrap/lib 2>&1
     [exec] Executing command: make --jobs=4 clean 2>&1
     [exec] Executing command: make --jobs=4 2>&1
     [exec] Executing command: make --jobs=4 tests 2>&1
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev):
0x600000000001d8d0 ***
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev):
0x600000000001d8d0 ***
*** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x600000000001d840
***
*** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x600000000001d970
***
*** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x600000000001d840
***
*** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x600000000001d970
***

[ ... this sequence repeats for hundreds of lines... ]

*** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x600000000001d840
***
*** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x600000000001d970
***
*** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x600000000001d840
***
*** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x600000000001d970
***
*** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x600000000001d840
***
PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 201326592 bytes exhausted at
[omitted]main/streams/streams.c(390) : Stream of type 'STDIO'
0x200000000195a268 (path: (null)) was not closed

This is repeatable; each time I raised the memory limit of PHP which
controlled the process, and got the same results so it seems like a
runaway memory resource usage. I couldn't figure out what else would be
helpful to document this and my initial post attached my config.log, but
it was rejected due to length.

I'll be happy to help further troubleshoot - just give me pointers!
Thank you for this wonderful software and thanks in advance for any
help.

Cheers,
..............................
Mark Lavi: Senior Web Producer, SGI
tel: +1-650.933.7707 || sgi.com <http://www.sgi.com/>