Segmentation fault while installing postgresql built from source

[RazerM]

Output of brew config

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.4.30
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: f9fe0f573b525de94538ead3851442a96304ab95
Last commit: 11 hours ago
Branch: stable
Core tap HEAD: 341cede4e67169728f9df737903e10c7d6c225be
Core tap last commit: 2 hours ago
Core tap JSON: 14 Apr 12:18 UTC
Core cask tap JSON: 14 Apr 12:18 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew
HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY: /Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew
HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew/Cellar
HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS: 28800
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: ["--appdir=~/Applications"]
HOMEBREW_EDITOR: subl -n -w
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 12
HOMEBREW_SORBET_RUNTIME: set
Homebrew Ruby: 3.3.8 => /Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.3.8/bin/ruby
CPU: dodeca-core 64-bit arm_lobos
Clang: 17.0.0 build 1700
Git: 2.49.0 => /Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew/bin/git
Curl: 8.7.1 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 15.3.2-arm64
CLT: 16.3.0.0.1.1742442376
Xcode: N/A
Rosetta 2: false

Output of brew doctor

Warning: Some installed formulae are deprecated or disabled.
You should find replacements for the following formulae:
  icu4c@76
  postgresql@12

Warning: The following formulae have the same name as core formulae:
  getsentry/tools/sentry-cli
Their taps are in use, so you must use these full names throughout Homebrew.

Warning: Putting non-prefixed coreutils in your path can cause GMP builds to fail.

Warning: Your Homebrew's prefix is not /opt/homebrew.

Most of Homebrew's bottles (binary packages) can only be used with the default prefix.
Consider uninstalling Homebrew and reinstalling into the default prefix.

This is a Tier 3 configuration:
  https://docs.brew.sh/Support-Tiers#tier-3

Description of issue

whether installing postgresql@14, postgresql@16, or postgresql@17, there is an error during install:

==> Installing postgresql@17
==> ./configure --datadir=/Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew/share/postgresql@17 --includedir=/Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew/include/postgresql@17 --sysconfdir=/Users/fraze
==> make
==> make install-world datadir=/Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew/Cellar/postgresql@17/17.4_1/share/postgresql libdir=/Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew/Cellar/postgresql@17/17
Last 15 lines from /Users/frazer.mclean/Library/Logs/Homebrew/postgresql@17/03.make:
/bin/sh ../../../config/install-sh -c -d '/Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew/Cellar/postgresql@17/17.4_1/share/doc/postgresql@17'/html '/Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew/Cellar/postgresql@17/17.4_1/share/man'/man1 '/Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew/Cellar/postgresql@17/17.4_1/share/man'/man3 '/Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew/Cellar/postgresql@17/17.4_1/share/man'/man7
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make -C ../../src/common all
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
/usr/bin/xmllint --nonet --path . --path . --output postgres-full.xml --noent --valid postgres.sgml
./zic -d '/Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew/Cellar/postgresql@17/17.4_1/share/postgresql/timezone'  ./data/tzdata.zi
make[2]: *** [install] Segmentation fault: 11
make[1]: *** [install-timezone-recurse] Error 2
make: *** [install-world-src-recurse] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/usr/bin/xsltproc --nonet --path . --path . --stringparam pg.version '17.4'  stylesheet.xsl postgres-full.xml
/usr/bin/xsltproc --nonet --path . --path . --stringparam pg.version '17.4'  stylesheet-man.xsl postgres-full.xml
touch man-stamp
cp -R man1 man3 man7 '/Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew/Cellar/postgresql@17/17.4_1/share/man'
touch html-stamp
cp -R html '/Users/frazer.mclean/homebrew/Cellar/postgresql@17/17.4_1/share/doc/postgresql@17'

Note the make[2]: *** [install] Segmentation fault: 11, which is caused by:

./zic -d '/User.s/frazer.mclean/homebrew/Cellar/postgresql@17/17.4_1/share/postgresql/timezone'  ./data/tzdata.zi

If I use HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API=1 brew install --build-from-source --verbose --debug postgresql@17 and enter the shell when it fails, then zic seems broken independent of the above arguments:

% cd src/timezone
% ./zic --help
zsh: segmentation fault  ./zic --help

[RazerM]

Additional context: I had PostgreSQL 16.5 and saw this issue when updating to the latest postgresql@16. If I check out the older formula for 16.5 it fails with the same issue, so I'm not entirely sure what changed in the meantime.

[botantony]

I use default Homebrew prefix and these formulae install without troubles. The only thing I would recommend is to reinstall Homebrew into default prefix. Homebrew isolates the environment on macOS when a formula is built from source and it might lead to the errors like this

Can you run ./zic --help in a debugger and share the output?

[RazerM]

I don't have admin rights on this machine, hence the non-default prefix. I don't have permission to run zic in lldb either.

[RazerM]

Using a non-default prefix on my personal Mac (to try reproduce) doesn't have the issue. It is reproducible across multiple Macs without admin rights, though.