[Fwd: md5sum & tr]

[Jan Eggert Kofoed]

I am sorry for bothering you, but now I see that my version 1.22 is too old,
since it has been reported that 1.22q fixes the HP-UX problem with
core-dump. Should I get version 2.0? Where do I get it?

Best regards
Jan

Jan Eggert Kofoed wrote:

> First of all I want to express gratitude and admiration for those
> indivuduals making it possible for us to have available so much free
> software of high quality. I receive a lot more than I give, but when I
> stumble over findings I want to put them to your attention. I am willing
> to investigate any modification you suggest on the
> platforms/configurations I have access to in order to test solutions you
> may suggest.
>
> I have downloaded the textutils package with time stamps around 19990127
> because I needed md5sum to run on HP workstations. Exeuting configure
> and make made the programs of the package readily available, and md5sum
> ran as expected when I was creating the digital signatures for the
> files. Simple tests gave the same results as other version of program
> (Linux, Cygnus on NT and Windows 95 platforms). There was only one
> problem: using the -c option for checing of the signatures caused
> segmentation violation. The problem was found to be attributable to the
> fact that 'getline' was not made part of the library (forgot the name).
> There were no problems during linking of the programs. Using a debugger
> I saw that getline returned without reading anything, and subsequently
> the code failed (free on memory not allocated, I think). Modification of
> the generated Makefile by adding ../lib/getline.c mended the situation
> perfectly. This was tested on HP-UX 10.10 and 10.20, with some old C
> compilers.
>
> I also tested the package extraction and installation on Linux. Here
> compilation failed on tr:
> gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.
> -I../lib -I../intl  -g -O2 -c tr.c
> tr.c:234: macro `stpcpy' used without args
> make[2]: *** [tr.o] Error 1
>
> Removing the forward-declaration made the program compile, and
> tests/tr-tests made no complaints.
>
> I have gained what I need from the download (md5sum on HP-UX), but the
> information above is supplied to you in the case you find it helpfull.
> Please let me know, if I can help you further in investigation of the
> problem, if you deem it beneficial.
>
> Best regards
> Jan Eggert Kofoed