Re: Re: [Monotone-devel] Problem with 'monotone genkey <ID>'... newbie?

[Will]

Thanks, but I found this message after searching with some alternative  
wordings, and just before I received your reply:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/monotone-devel/2003-11/msg00153.html

Peter Simons wrote:
> > I have trouble running monotone, because the compiled binary seems  
> > to do nasty things with the stack. I can create a database, but >  
> when I try to generate a key, GCC's stack-protector will kill the >  
> process. I compiled a binary with stack protection disabled, but >  
> still it fails at the same point:
>
> there are some known (and, alas, of unknown reason) problems with
> crypto++, when build with optimization above -O0, on some versions of
> GCC. try building witih -O0.
>
> -graydon

And it did work.  Thanks for the reply, though.

Is 'crypto++' part of Monotone or Boost -- I think I compiled Boost  
with '-O2', you see.  It still appears to work, but if it's going to  
kick up some other hard-to-find bugs...

--
Will


On Sat, Dec 13 2003 at 15:58:28 -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:37:22PM +0000, Will Robertson wrote:
> >  Anyway, I'm having a strange problem with it on Gentoo Linux.
> >  I have compiled it against Boost 1.30.2 successfully using a
> > default config, and been able to successfully 'db init', but
> > 'genkey' against this init'd db appears to hang:
>
> Does recompiling without optimization help?  I ran into some
> optimization-triggered bug in crypto++ a while ago, and I don't think
> anyone got around to tracking it down yet...
>
> -- Nathaniel