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Date:      Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:47:41 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Buildworld failure in libmagic on old system
Message-ID:  <20070311034741.GA34962@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070311032426.GA79728@cdnetworks.co.kr>
References:  <1173567721.64488.19.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <20070310232353.GA57287@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070311032426.GA79728@cdnetworks.co.kr>

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On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 12:24:26PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 06:23:53PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>  > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 11:02:01PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
>  > >=20
>  > > Hi all,
>  > >=20
>  > > I've been seeing a build failure on sparc64 for a while on one of my
>  > > machines, last built Thu Dec  8 13:52:22 GMT 2005 (yes, I know it's
>  > > old!), where it looks like there's some issue with which version of =
libc
>  > > gets used.  I've been trying to upgrade this every two months or so
>  > > since then, without success, so it's time to report it!
>  > >=20
>  > > Full compile log at http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ga9/build-20070309.=
txt
>  > >=20
>  > > I suspect a libc issue because of the following:
>  > >=20
>  > > leeloo# pwd
>  > > /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libmagic
>  > > leeloo# ./mkmagic magic
>  > > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>  > > leeloo# echo $LD_PRELOAD
>  > > LD_PRELOAD: Undefined variable.
>  > > leeloo# setenv LD_PRELOAD /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libc/libc.so.7
>  > > leeloo# echo $LD_PRELOAD
>  > > /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libc/libc.so.7
>  > > leeloo# ./mkmagic magic
>  > > leeloo#
>  > >=20
>  > > Is this something which should be fixed in the source?  I'm sure set=
ting
>  > > the OSRELDATE=3D0 hack to tell it the world that is installed is "re=
ally
>  > > old" may well fix it, and I'm happy to do that, I'm just wondering if
>  > > something is not being rebuilt somewhere where it should be?
>  > >=20
>  > > There is one Google hit with a similar problem -
>  > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2006-June/004159.=
html
>  > > - which is a tinderbox failure in June 2006.  I'm pretty sure I first
>  > > saw the problem before that (although I could be wrong).  I also can=
't
>  > > seem to see any commit that would have got the tinderbox working.
>  >=20
>  > There is a malloc error in that code which causes it to segfault when
>  > MALLOC_OPTIONS=3DAJ.  Not doing this is the workaround, but someone
>  > should track down and fix it.
>  >=20
>=20
> Long time ago I've encountered the same problem on sparc64 and I posted
> possible fix to CURRENT. However I didn't receive any comments form
> obrien@ since then. See the follow thread and posted patch.
>=20
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-August/065115.html

FYI the problem is not really sparc64 but also manifests during
e.g. 6.x -> 7.0 upgrades on i386.

Did you submit the fix to the author?  If so and they approved it, you
can just import the fix.

Kris

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