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insight package

  1. Bug #110387
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 110387

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: Insight was accidentally built wrong

Hi,

Thanks for the information. I started to prepare the necessary parts that
will be needed to fix this bug in each release, and then I hit another snag.

The SRU procedure states that the bug should be fixed in the development
release first. However, insight fails to compile in Intrepid, due to the
embedded copy of gdb having an unchecked "fgets" call (and possibly
other things), which fails with the now-default -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 check.

It would be possible to fix this part of it, but it will be a chunk more work,
and I don't want to work on that right now. It would also be a lot easier
in many ways if insight didn't embed gdb, but I don't know how necessary
that is for insight.

What I will do in the meantime is look for a bug in the bts of gdb, and if there
isn't one then file a bug, as it may help a fix turn up quicker.

Thanks,

James