Re: gnome-gen-mimedb segfault (Solaris)

[James Macnicol <jamesm ee adfa oz au>]

> >         I am trying to install GNOME on Solaris x86 7 and during the
> > "make install" phase while building gnome-libs I get a segfault in the
> > that program.  The only info I can get on that was a news article
> > which said this bug (buffer overrun) has been around for a while but
> > doesn't affect libc6 Linux systems.  I have tried versions 1.0.8,
> > 1.0.9 and 1.0.10 and they all do the same thing.  Is there a patch
> > available to make this work on other OSes?

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> What compiler are you using?
>         Duck

	gcc 2.8.1 mostly, however I have tried compiling that app with
egcs 1.1.2 as well and the same thing happens.  I can't get a useful
gdb backtrace on it since the stack seems to have been clobbered.



James