I'd like to preserve this for posterity, so I'm hoping the list will accept this (I'm not subscribed) so that others may benefit from the archives. I hope no one else ever has to spend the 10 hours on this I did!
IF for some reason configure decides that your system does not define `off_t' it will put `#define off_t long' in config.h. Among other things, this will makes struct stat 4 bytes shorter. This means that calls to stat() will now stomp on memory every time it's called. With auto variables you might get lucky and hit things like return addresses! Much fun ensues. You could probably also get crazy results from mmap() and other things taking off_t which you are sure you have the prototype for but are getting 32 bit quantities anyway. For some reason the two things that this bit me on were bonobo-conf and ximian evolution. For whatever reason, db-3.1.17 (if you've built evolution you know what I mean) which I built at the same time detected off_t fine and didn't have this problem. --Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
