Re: CVS commit: src/external/mit/xorg/bin/xauth

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

In article <20140405170155.ACA4D4C%cvs.netbsd.org@localhost>,
Matthias Scheler <source-changes-d%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
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>Module Name:   src
>Committed By:  tron
>Date:          Sat Apr  5 17:01:55 UTC 2014
>
>Modified Files:
>       src/external/mit/xorg/bin/xauth: Makefile
>
>Log Message:
>Force "USE_SSP" to "no" when compiling xauth(1) for now. This avoid the
>program to fail with error messages like this one:
>
>/usr/X11R7/bin/xauth:  file /home/tron/.Xauthority does not exist
>/usr/X11R7/bin/xauth:  unable to link authority file
>/home/tron/.Xauthority, use /home/tron/.Xauthority
>
>This seems to be some weird compiler bug. If you add a debug printf(3) call
>before the line in "xsrc/external/mit/xauth/dist/process.c" that calls
>link(2) the target and source filename have the correct value and
>the call works. Without the printf(3) call it fails.

What does ktracing show?

christos