gnome-libs-0.99.5

[Philippe Defert cern ch]

Sam Vilain writes:
 > I successfully compiled gnome-libs-0.99.5 on the following platforms:
 > 
 > sparc-sun-solaris2.6
 > 
 > All went well, except for "gnome-gen-mimedb" coring upon "make
 > install".  The problem appears to be because line 822 of
 > gnome-data/mime-magic contains a name that is longer than
 > sizeof(GnomeMagicEntry.mimetype).  Looks like a case of C programmer's
 > disease.
 > 
 > I think that the culprit is a broken vsnprintf in solaris 2.6 (called
 > by glib/gutils.c).  It appears to be overflowing even though it's
 > arguments are sunsible, and the "array" variable in the
 > gnome-magic.c:gnome_magic_parse gets clobbered.
 > 
 > This is v1.1.14 of lib.
 > 
 > hack^H^H^H^HWorkaround:
 > shorten line 822 of gnome-data/mime-magic.
 > -- 

I did not have this problem at all. I tried to repeat your error:

refsol26_/scratch/happi/GNU.DESK/gnome-libs-0.99.5/gnome-data_5 $ ../libgnome/gnome-gen-mimedb mime-magic
refsol26_/scratch/happi/GNU.DESK/gnome-libs-0.99.5/gnome-data_6 $ 

But I had an infinite loop with DEC UNIX. 

I used glib 1.1.14 from tar file and egcs 1.1.1.

Amicalement.
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