[Bloat] macOS Catalina causes 'hugo serve' to segfault...

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Rich Brown <richb.hanover at gmail.com> writes:

> I took a deep breath, and upgraded my macOS machine to Catalina. I
> knew it would cause problems, and it did. Most were small, or simply
> annoying.
>
> One of the flat tires is the ancient version of hugo (0.16) which I
> had been keeping around to rebuild the bufferbloat.net site. It now
> segfaults reliably (instead of only a third of the time when I was
> running Sierra (10.12))
>
> I just posted a message on the Hugo forum (a Discourse forum!) asking
> for guidance.
> https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/convert-a-0-16-site-to-modern-hugo-syntax/23579

Some background for this (for those who don't know or may have
forgotten): The reason we ended up freezing on Hugo 0.16 was that the
Hugo devs dropped the support for the wiki-style internal links which we
were using. I seem to recall they were also being somewhat unhelpful in
considering any suggestions to reinstate / keep that support around.
Looking at that thread, I don't really get the feeling that they're any
more helpful now :/

As an alternative, maybe it'll be possible to build a new version of the
0.16 Hugo binary with a newer Go runtime? I very much doubt that the
segfault is because of the Hugo code itself...

-Toke