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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: UUCP help!!!!!!!
- Date: 13 Dec 1992 20:47:20 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman ) writes:
-
- >steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins) writes:
- >: I also had these problems under pl6 (presumably it also breaks under pl5)
- >: so what I did was recompile smail and taylor with "-fwritable-strings".
- >: Now they both work.
-
- >It does indeed not work under pl5. I was hoping it would work under pl6,
- >but NOT!
-
- >However, by now, you might have seen my message, I _HAVE_ tried recompil-
- >ing with the oh-so-much-recommended -fwritable-strings flag,
-
- >AND IT _STILL_ BOMBS WITH A SEGMENTATION FAULT AND DUMPS CORE!!!!!!!
-
- >The software I'm using is patchlevel 6 of the kernel, gcc 2.2.2dm
- >shared libraries 4.1 (I think; whatever came with the SLS pl5 dist.).
-
- This is your problem right there. The 4.1 libraries have a broken sigaction
- that will cause core dumps. Get the latest version of libc off of
- tsx-11.mit.edu in the puv/linux/GCC directory. Its called libc.so.4.2.Z
-
-
- >I've traced the problem to a sigaction() call in the usset_signal()
- >function in sys1.c (hardlinked to sys1.unx) when I run uucico through
- >gdb.
-
- >Only one other option I haven't tried; try uucico under pl5 now that I
- >have recompiled it.
- >--
- >Born to void warranties! ianj@ijpc.UUCP
-
- James
-