[mapguide-users] Buffer Overflow on MGOS 2.1

[tceverling at yahoo.co.uk]

If I may ask, what exactly was the GSoC student doing?



----- Original Message ----
From: Jason Birch <jason at jasonbirch.com>
To: MapGuide Users Mail List <mapguide-users at lists.osgeo.org>
Sent: Fri, 22 October, 2010 14:23:33
Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] Buffer Overflow on MGOS 2.1

Glad to hear you were successful. Hopefully we'll get to a better
linux build/install story with the changes in 2.2 and beyond. It's
unfortunate that we lost our GSoC student who was working on this :(

On 2010-10-21, tceverling at yahoo.co.uk <tceverling at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I have resolved the problem and have gotten MGOS 2.1 to work on Ubuntu 9.04.
>
> It was somehow caused by the build process somehow using both GCC 4.1.3 and
> GCC
> 4.3.3 for certain different packages. Relinking "gcc" and "g++" to "gcc-4.1"
> and
> "g++-4.1" resolves my issue. Doing that also eliminates the need for quite a
> number of hacks previously seen in the mailing list for building MGOS 2.1 on
> Ubuntu 9.04. Probably also applicable for Ubuntu 8.04 and MGOS 2.0, but I
> have
> not tested.
>
> Best regards.

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