Re: CVS commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/makeinfo

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Mar 25,  7:47am, tron%NetBSD.org@localhost (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 <20140324230302.1AD1A96%cvs.netbsd.org@localhost>,
| > Matthias Scheler <source-changes-d%NetBSD.org@localhost> 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