Re: AMD64 self build fail during building libmagic

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:23:28 +0400
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:08:53PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:33:00AM +0900, takawata_at_jp.freebsd.org wrote:
>  > Hi, I recently encountered build failure with libmagic
>  > for this one month.
>  > My investigating shows that intermediate executable 'mkmagic'
>  > fails to detect the termination of some description of entries 
>  > which is longer than expect.(According to contrib/file/file.h
>  >  the length is MAXDESC=64.)
>  > The following is a workaround for it. Is it known problem?
>  > 
> 
> I also encountered the same issue during upgrade to latest CURRENT
> on sparc64. mkmagic dumped core on sparc64.
> I've mananged to track down the cause of failure and I've sent a
> patch to obrien but got no reply yet.
> 
I remember this as well, and I *vaguely* remember looking into
fresh NetBSD sources and seeing it was already fixed (I may be
equally mistaken, as it was a while ago).


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru_at_FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

Received on Wed Aug 16 2006 - 02:23:21 UTC

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