Changeset cc2643e1

Timestamp:

11/24/2017 09:15:03 AM (6 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

f14e2d99

Parents:

8f31479b

Message:

Add a patch to libxml2, to prevent segfaults in itstool when the python
module is built with Python3

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@19528 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general.ent (modified) (2 diffs)
• general/genlib/libxml2.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general.ent

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "22">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "23">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "11">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2017">
@@ -7 +7 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "November 22nd, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "November 23rd, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->

general/genlib/libxml2.xml

@@ -82 +82 @@
         </para>
       </listitem>
-<!-- All CVEs seem to have been applied in 2.9.4
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Required patch:
-          <ulink url="&patch-root;/libxml2-&libxml2-version;-security_fixes-1.patch"/>
-        </para>
-      </listitem>-->
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Recommended patch to prevent a segfault in itstool when using Python3:
+          <ulink url="&patch-root;/libxml2-&libxml2-version;-python3_hack-1.patch"/>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
 
@@ -131 +131 @@
     <title>Installation of libxml2</title>
 
-   <para>
-      To ensure that the <application>Python3</application> module can be
+    <para>
+      First apply a patch, which prevents segfaults in the Python module, when
+      built by <xref linkend="python3"/>:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../libxml2-&libxml2-version;-python3_hack-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
+      To ensure that the <application>Python</application> module can be
       built by <xref linkend="python3"/>, run:
     </para>

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -43 +43 @@
 -->
     <listitem>
+      <para>November 23rd, 2017</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Patch libxml2, to prevent segfaults in itstool
+          in some cases.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>November 22nd, 2017</para>
       <itemizedlist>