re: install/50370: buffer overflow with powerpc--netbsd-ar

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/50370; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: install-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: re: install/50370: buffer overflow with powerpc--netbsd-ar
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 04:30:24 +1100

 > When I was trying to setup NetBSD 1.6.2 compiler with macppc tools on ub=
 untu 10.0 machine, the command was ./build.sh -D /usr/src/destdir.macppc -=
 m macppc tools , I got the following error:
 
 do you mean netbsd 1.6.2 (from 2004) or 6.1.2 (from 2013)?
 
 the former has been unsupported by the project since 2006, so any fixes
 there will likely have to come from yourside.  it looks like you need
 to either find and the bugs in the old binutils, or, disable the check
 in the host (ubuntu) libc.
 
 if the latter, we can and should be able to fix this.
 
 
 .mrg.