>Number:         7525
>Category:       lib
>Synopsis:       gnu/dist/libio/gen-params can fail silently
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    lib-bug-people (Library Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu May  6 06:20:00 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Christoph Badura
>Organization:
	
>Release:        NetBSD-current as of 1999-05-05
>Environment:
NetBSD jonny2.klicman.de 1.4A NetBSD 1.4A (JONNY2) #0: Wed May  5 21:46:40 MEST 1999     bad@jonny2.klicman.de:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/JONNY2 i386

>Description:
	Yesterday I started a build of a system that I hadn't updated
	in a very long time.  For some reason gen-params failed silently,
	produced a corrupted _G_config.h, and returned with exit status 0;
	causing the corrupted file to be installed.  Subsequently the
	build of libstdc++ failed.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Dunno.

>Fix:
	Make gen-param more robust.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: