Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:38:49 +1000 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Wiktor Niesiobedzki <w@evip.pl> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: adsl/pppoe no longer connecting on 5.1 Message-ID: <20030612153849.A57744@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20030612051812.GQ48387@mail.evip.pl>; from w@evip.pl on Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 07:18:12AM %2B0200 References: <200306112248.AA655556764@141.com> <20030612045022.GA36033@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030612051812.GQ48387@mail.evip.pl>
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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
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