On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 03:43:50 -0400
Andrey Moshbear <andrey.vul@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi;
> 
> texi2any fails with SIGABRT when compiling texinfo:
> 
> emerge -1v =sys-apps/texinfo-6.5: http://dpaste.com/0XJMVRV
> emerge --info: http://dpaste.com/1DDRESJ
> 
> What's the failure cause and appropriate solution or workaround?
> 
> -- AV
> 

This looks like this somehow, https://bugs.gentoo.org/622576
But it might not be.

Either way, all this scares me: 

/bin/sh: line 15:  1456 Aborted                 /usr/bin/perl ../tp/texi2any -I . -o info-stnd.info `test -f 'info-stnd.texi' || echo './'`info-stnd.texi
*** Error in `/usr/bin/perl': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000001e92cc8 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/libc.so.6(+0x76bbb)[0x7fc819991bbb]
/lib64/libc.so.6(+0x7e385)[0x7fc819999385]
/lib64/libc.so.6(+0x7ed6e)[0x7fc819999d6e]
../tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/.libs/MiscXS.so(xs_abort_empty_line+0x2f3)[0x7fc8177dee7c]
../tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/.libs/MiscXS.so(xs_merge_text+0x8c1)[0x7fc8177e103f]
../tp/Texinfo/MiscXS/.libs/MiscXS.so(+0x2980)[0x7fc8177dd980]
/usr/lib64/libperl.so.5.24(Perl_pp_entersub+0x2ad)[0x7fc819e0a6cd]

And probably warrants a bug with texinfo