Re: gnome-gen-mimedb (gnome-libs) segfault

[Janos Farkas <Janos.Farkas-lists+priv-#7CyCBIXOuQi*-gnome lists eon ml org>]

On 1999-03-07 at 03:55:48, Aspiring GNOME User wrote:
> Hello, all. Have been using KDE, but with the GNOME-1.0 release, thought
> we'd give GNOME a try (variety is always good). Unfortunately, we're
> having some trouble compiling from source on a progressively more

> chgrp games /opt/var/games && chmod g=rwXs /opt/var/games
> ../libgnome/gnome-gen-mimedb /opt/etc/mime-magic
> make[2]: *** [install-data-local] ***Segmentation fault***
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/argh/gsrc/gnome-libs-1.0.1/gnome-data'
> make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2

> 1) Has anyone else on this list experienced this problem? There is one
> post on Slashdot's Gnome-1.0 story about it and one DejaNews post about
> it, but neither has been replied to.

I had this.  Update your libdb (about 1.85), it has a buggy snprintf
implementation, which supercedes the correct one in libc/glib.  IMHO it
would be nice if somehow this would be checked.  Unfortunately, it can't
be done in glib, since it only happens if you link with libdb...

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