buildworld Stop in /usr/src/usr.sbin/bsnmpd/bsnmpd

[othermark]

Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:24:08 -0800
>>From: Jason Evans <jasone at FreeBSD.org>
>>
>>Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>
>>>>From: othermark <atkin901 at yahoo.com>
>>>>Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:13:14 -0800
>>>>Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
>>>>
>>>>I'm scratching my head on this one, trying to buildworld with today sources
>>>>to get the sendmail fix:
>>>
>>>
>>>I am seeing the same thing. I read the tread on this from back on March
>>>7-9 and have confirmed that the "fix" is in my Makefile.inc1, but I
>>>still can't make buildworld.
>>>
>>>My last update was in the critical perion...Feb. 23, but I have been
>>>unsuccessful in getting past it.
>>>
>>>I have tried explicitly running the newly built getsnmptree (from
>>>/usr/obj) and then building, but I have had no luck to this point.
>>>
>>>Not only did the fix to Makefile.inc1 not do the trick, but
>>>hand-building gnesnmptree and hand executing the commands to make the
>>>oid.h file didn't help a bit.
>>>
>>>I'm baffled. (And probably missing the obvious.)
>>
>>This isn't a very satisfying solution, but if you do the buildworld with 
>>MALLOC_OPTIONS=jZ, you will avoid the gensnmptree bug.
>>
>>Jason
>>
> 
> 
> Jason,
> 
> Thanks! It worked like a charm.
> 
> Any explanation as to why zeroing a malloc makes this work (as opposed
> to filling with 0xa5)? I'm sure confused.

Double thanks, I was finally able to get a successful buildworld.   What 
is the likelyhood of other people hitting this?   This boxes' -current 
was only 27 days old, before I tried this update.