Segmentation Fault (Signal 11) During Protobuf Compilation with GCC 9.3.0

[Senthil Kumar]

Hello everyone,

I’m encountering a segmentation fault (signal 11) while building Protobuf from source on my Linux system. The error occurs during the linking phase when trying to generate the libprotobuf-lite.so shared object file. I’ve included details below about my setup, the commands I used, and the errors I’m seeing.

System Information:

• OS: CentoS 7
• GCC Version: 9.3.0
• CMake Version: 3.27.7
• Protobuf Version: 28.2 from GitHub 

Steps to Reproduce:  

=> git clone https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git
=> cd protobuf/

=> git checkout v28.2

=> git submodule update --init --recursive
=> mkdir cmake_build

=> cd cmake_build/
=> cmake .. -DABSL_PROPAGATE_CXX_STD=ON -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/smahalin/protobuf -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/path_to/gcc/9.3.0/bin/gcc -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/path_to/gcc/9.3.0/bin/g++ -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug

=> make 

  During the build process, I received the following error:  
[ 27%] Linking CXX shared library libprotobuf-lited.so
collect2: fatal error: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault], core dumped
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [libprotobuf-lited.so.28.2.0] Error 1
make[2]: *** Deleting file `libprotobuf-lited.so.28.2.0'
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/libprotobuf-lite.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2