Changeset ef1e4de

Timestamp:

08/30/2005 09:29:22 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

Children:

e5d278c

Parents:

4508e60

Message:

Compile util-linux with -O instead of -O2 optimizations to prevent cfdisk from segfaulting

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/gcc4/BOOK@6778 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/util-linux.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -120 +120 @@
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by
+compiling with -O instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug
+1604).</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the
 upstream fix for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para></listitem>

chapter06/util-linux.xml

@@ -53 +53 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&util-linux-cramfs-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>A bug in <command>cfdisk</command> causes it to segfault when compiled
+with GCC's <option>-O2</option> optimization setting.  The following
+<command>sed</command> works around the problem by using the less aggressive
+<option>-O</option> optimization level instead:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/-O2/-O/' MCONFIG</userinput></screen> 
 
 <para>Prepare Util-linux for compilation:</para>