From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 22:47:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD1537B401 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:47:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au (smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au [210.50.30.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 713CA43F85 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:47:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au) Received: from dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au (210.50.248.235) by smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au (7.0.015) id 3EDD516E001B5FD2; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:46:48 +1000 Received: by dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8694DC912; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:38:49 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:38:49 +1000 From: Tim Robbins To: Wiktor Niesiobedzki Message-ID: <20030612153849.A57744@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <200306112248.AA655556764@141.com> <20030612045022.GA36033@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030612051812.GQ48387@mail.evip.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030612051812.GQ48387@mail.evip.pl>; from w@evip.pl on Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 07:18:12AM +0200 cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: adsl/pppoe no longer connecting on 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 05:47:04 -0000 On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 07:18:12AM +0200, Wiktor Niesiobedzki wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:50:22PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:48:32PM -0600, Andrew Lankford wrote: > > > >Can you try backing out bsd.sys.mk to r1.26 and rebuild your world and > > > >kernel? Later versions of this file are causing strange problems >with > > > >package builds. > > > > > > I was a little lazy and just backed out bsd.sys.mk to 1.26 as you > > > suggested, rebuilt /usr/lib/ , /usr/include/, and ppp. My kernel is the > > > same as last time. As a result, ppp's now up and running again. > > > > Thanks, that's actually more useful because it isolates the problem. > > It's probably something in ppp that is misbehaving with CSTD=c99. > > > alloca(3) function is misbehaving in ppp (namely ether.c). Is this a compiler > bug? Misbehaving in what way? CSTD=c99 causes gcc to use alloca() from libc instead of its builtin version. Perhaps alloca() in libc is broken -- any bugs in it would have been covered up by gcc until now. Tim