[erlang-bugs] R14B01: buffer overflow detected during compilation with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (x86_64)

[Christian Faulhammer]

Hi,

Nico Kruber <kruber@REDACTED>:
> Most distributions nowadays adds the -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 flag during
> package compilation. I tried updating my erlang package (openSUSE
> 11.3, x86_64) from R14B to R14B01 and received the following error
> (also see the attached build.log.fortsource2 - compressed due to its
> file size):
[...]
> Setting  -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 allows erlang to be build but the buffer
> overflow is probably still there and dangerous... R14B did not show
> this behaviour.

As you can see, a lot of people are hitting this problem on Gentoo:

 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348559

Is there a fix available already somewhere?

V-Li

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