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

[Aspiring GNOME User <unit lgcy com>]

Janos Farkas wrote:
> 
> 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...

Thank you very much! I feel sorry for any just-new-to-Linux people with
this problem, since I did have to libtool the db distribution by hand in
order to build the shared library, but after building it -- no more
gnome-gen-mimedb segfault!

As far as I'm concerned, this is the canonical fix -- all of the other
e-mail I got (I did appreciate it BTW, folks) -- were from people who
solved the problem by disabling gnome-gen-mimedb altogether (clearly not
the most desirable solution).

Thanks again! And clever anti-spam measure, BTW.

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