On Mar 25, 7:47am, t...@netbsd.org (Matthias Scheler) wrote: -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/makeinfo
| On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:20:04PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: | > In article <20140324230302.1ad1...@cvs.netbsd.org>, | > Matthias Scheler <source-changes-d@NetBSD.org> wrote: | > >Module Name: src | > >Committed By: tron | > >Date: Mon Mar 24 23:03:02 UTC 2014 | > > | > >Modified Files: | > > src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/makeinfo: Makefile | > > | > >Log Message: | > >Don't compile with fortification. It breaks makeinfo(1) for certain | > >input files (e.g. "cl.texi" shipped with Emacs 23.4) if it is compiled | > >with GCC 4.8.3 and "USE_SSP" set to "yes". | > | > How does it fail? Segv? Syntax error? | | It complains about a lot missing links between nodes. All nodes need | to have up, next and prev link. And it has code to automatically | populate those. But for some reason the string it is coping is empty | and it therefore considers the links missing. I've tried to find | out what and where goes wrong but failed to do so. Thanks! Perhaps it is a real bug... christos
