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

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

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.

        Kind regards

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