Re: gnatsd problems with 4.0.1

"Mike M. Volokhov" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bug-tracking.gnats.general
Organization Insakharprom-K, Ltd.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:24:35 -0600
Chad Walstrom <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tim Buck wrote:
> > I'm trying to build gnats 4.0.1 on a FreeBSD 5.3/amd64 platform.  It
> > compiles OK, but segfaults when invoked. So I built it with CFLAGS="-g
> > -Wall" to get debugging symbols in the binary, but this binary doesn't
> > segfault!
> 
> Hmm... I know there have been some problems recently with the gcc
> compilers, libc, and 4.0.x.  I believe it has something to do with the
> memcpy() handling in ./libiberty, especially when compiled with
> optimizations turned on.  The suggestion has been to turn off
> optimizations when you compile.
> 
> This was the reason why I tried to update the ./libiberty and ./include
> directories in the CVS version of GNATS.  As you experienced, there are
> build problems on the FreeBSD platform involving this upgrade.

Greetings!

Could you explain me please what a reason to have libiberty code in GNATS tree?

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TIA,
Mishka.
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