bin/123977: Segmentation fault in dialog with ghostscript-gpl-nox11 port

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Sun May 25 14:25:12 UTC 2008


Jille wrote:
> Kris Kennaway schreef:
>> ache at FreeBSD.org wrote:
>>> Synopsis: Segmentation fault in dialog with ghostscript-gpl-nox11 port
>>>
>>> State-Changed-From-To: open->patched
>>> State-Changed-By: ache
>>> State-Changed-When: Sun May 25 13:05:41 UTC 2008
>>> State-Changed-Why: MAX_LEN bumped to 4096 long time ago
>>>
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=123977
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>>
>> Are you certain this is relevant here?
> Confirmed.
> 
> My 6.2 box had 2048, my 6.3 had 4096.
> Changing it to 4096 on my 6.2, recompiling, fixed it.
> Changing it back to 2048, recompiling, rebroke it.
> 
> So this is really the issue.

OK, thanks for confirming.  I think we can close this PR now as a 
duplicate of the older one.  You are correct that 4096 is just a 
bandaid, but short of hard work to fix the many deficiencies in dialog 
this is the best available solution.

Kris



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