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

[Matthias Scheler <tron%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:56:56AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> | > 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...

I guess it is somewhere in the middle. There might be some questionable
code which breaks because of the limit enforcing of fortification.
But I couldn't find it yesterday and I really wanted to have "emacs"
on my NetBSD-current machine.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                 https://zhadum.org.uk/