There is a bug [1] in the old gcc used on FreeBSD 9.3, which makes qdoc segfault on sorting while generating its index sections. As mentioned in [2] by Michael Hansen, we can circument this by using qSort instead of std::sort on FreeBSD 9.x. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59391 [2] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-43057 --- src/qdoc/qdocindexfiles.cpp.orig 2016-10-09 21:13:42.831072000 +0200 +++ src/qdoc/qdocindexfiles.cpp 2016-10-09 21:13:56.153968000 +0200 @@ -1412,7 +1412,7 @@ const Aggregate* inner = static_cast(node); NodeList cnodes = inner->childNodes(); - std::sort(cnodes.begin(), cnodes.end(), Node::nodeNameLessThan); + qSort(cnodes.begin(), cnodes.end(), Node::nodeNameLessThan); foreach (Node* child, cnodes) { generateIndexSections(writer, child, generateInternalNodes);