Bug#231438: locales fails to install due to locale-gen segfault

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:33:22 -0500,
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:10:24AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > At Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:13:13 +0000,
> > James Troup wrote:
> > > tags 231438 + patch
> > > thanks
> > > 
> > > Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:
> > > 
> > > > > localedef uses trampoline in its internal; it may conflict with
> > > > > exec-shield like pax, please see:
> > > > >
> > > > >       http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=198099
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm, Red Hat _must_ have a patch for that by now....
> > > 
> > > They do.  I've attached a .dpatch below with the relevant patch
> > > extracted from the latest Fedora .src.rpm.  I built and tested this on
> > > i686-linux both with and without exec-shield and got someone else to
> > > do the same.  (There are also no testsuite regressions.)
> > 
> > Thanks for looking this bug and patch.  But XFree86 has also this kind
> > of problem.  Pax uses a file which lists program names to avoid this
> > issue.  So is this ok to apply this patch for glibc?  Or should
> > exec-shield users be aware "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield"?
> 
> I think the patch is appropriate.  I haven't tested it but it
> definitely looks right.

I've put it in.  Thanks to James!

Regards,
-- gotom