PaulHowarth/Blog/2009-08-06

Thursday 6th August 2009

Wiki

Updated SunJava6OnFedora to reference Sun Java 6 Update 15, including the 64-bit browser plugin

Fedora Project

Updated gtkwave to 3.2.2 in Rawhide after an updated gcc package became available to resolve Bug #515672; Jakub also suggested a workaround for the F-11 build, which worked although I'm not currently planning to update F-11 to 3.2.2
The required patch was as follows, growing a buffer allocated on the stack a little bit:

--- gtkwave-3.2.2/src/helpers/fst/fstapi.c      2009-08-06 20:44:14.000000000 +0100
+++ gtkwave-3.2.2/src/helpers/fst/fstapi.c      2009-08-06 20:45:27.000000000 +0100
@@ -2431,7 +2431,8 @@
        {
        FILE *fcomp;
        off_t offpnt, uclen;
-       char gz_membuf[FST_GZIO_LEN];
+       const BZ515672_BODGE = 32;
+       char gz_membuf[FST_GZIO_LEN + BZ515672_BODGE];
        void *zhandle;
         int flen = strlen(xc->filename);
         char *hf = calloc(1, flen + 16 + 32 + 1);