From: Giulio Moro <giuliomoro@yahoo.it> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 01:10:35 +0000 Subject: checkinstall: Segmentation fault when invoking `checkinstall cmake -P cmake_install.cmake` Forwarded: https://bugtrack.izto.org:4442/show_bug.cgi?id=171 in installwatch.c, _xstat64() is missing check for initialization As a consequence of this, if `__xstat64()` is the first function called from the library, then no initialization is performed and the program segfaults when trying to call `true_xstat64()` which is uninitialized This causes a segmentation fault on Debian Stretch when invoking e.g.: `checkinstall cmake -P cmake_install.cmake` --- --- a/installwatch/installwatch.c +++ b/installwatch/installwatch.c @@ -3734,6 +3734,9 @@ instw_setpath(&instw,pathname); instw_getstatus(&instw,&status); + if (!libc_handle) + initialize(); + #if DEBUG instw_print(&instw); #endif