[1209] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: [linux-security] libc 5.4.7
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian La Roche)
Sat Oct 12 07:41:24 1996
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:51:27 +0200
From: florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de (Florian La Roche)
To: dholland@eecs.harvard.edu (David Holland)
Cc: jauderho@netcom.com (Jauder Ho), dholland@eecs.harvard.edu,
potato@dsnet.com, linux-gcc@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610092303.TAA16294@burgundy.eecs.harvard.edu>; from David Holland on Oct 9, 1996 19:03:15 -0400
David Holland writes:
> > 5.4.8 is totally buggy for me. I am unable to compile anything
> > with it. I get a bunch of undefined stuff. I think putshort is one of
> > them.. just try compiling a hello.c with 5.4.8 There is a need to fix this
> > and others so that we have a decent working libc. 5.4.7 is pretty stable
> > but is pretty stable stable enough. Besides the 5.4.x series of libcs
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ?
> > crashes netscape if it runs java and occasionally causes netscape to croak
> > without reason.
>
> Does this happen to anyone else?
>
> Does anyone have any idea why? Do we need to make a 5.3.12A release?
This is happening for many people. One problem is an incompatible libxpm
and the other seems to be different malloc in 5.3.12 or higher.
(5.2.18 is best for netscape.)
xpm seems to be the worst thing. If you have menues or buttons with small
icons, netscape easily crashes. (Those icons are normally only available,
if people have installed Motif.)
Florian
