Scott Street wrote to Robert Wolfe:

SS> RW> ====== Backtrace: =========
SS> RW> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__snprintf_chk+0x34)[0x77ead]
SS> RW>     -mbsebbs[0x807838a]
SS> 
SS> Hi Rob,
SS> 
SS> This is the error I have been chasing for about two weeks now.  Please 
SS> remove
SS> the -O (or -O2 if you enabled optimize during configure stage).
SS> 
SS> You'll need to "make clean" then "configure".
SS> 
SS> I also remove "examples" from the build chain in
Makefile.global, as well 
SS> as
SS> change the CFLAGS slightly.  In your case, removing the -O (-O2) will 
SS> resolve
SS> the buffer overflow error.  
SS> 
SS> From my experimentation, it appears this is a side-effect of GCC inlineing
SS> snprintf which with "-Wall" shows up as a compile time warning that 
SS> snprintf
SS> will always overflow the buffer.
SS> 
SS> Good luck.

Cool, I will have to give this a try.  Thanks!


    Greetings, Robert Wolfe

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