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?

[snip]

> What compiler are you using?
>         Duck

	It turns out that the problem is a bug in Solaris' vsnprintf
function (and thus g_vsnprintf).  If you comment out HAVE_VSNPRINTF in
glib's config.h and rebuild glib the problem goes away.

	I have built all of GNOME that I want now.  Works pretty well.



James