[oe] Message - %n in writable segment detected

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 19:58 -0700, ed wrote:
>> I get this message in the log.
>>
>> NOTE: Running task 40 of 2678 (ID:
>> 1757, /home/ed/mini2440/OE/mini2440/recipes/m4/m4-native_1.4.12.bb,
>> do_patch)
>> NOTE: Running task 41 of 2678 (ID:
>> 1758, /home/ed/mini2440/OE/mini2440/recipes/m4/m4-native_1.4.12.bb,
>> do_configure)
>> *** %n in writable segment detected ***
>>
>> Is this something to be concerned about?
>
> Not unduly.  It's caused by a bug in one of the test programs that m4's
> configure script runs, which is tripping a security check in glibc.  The
> program in question will be aborted, which could be causing autoconf to
> get the wrong result for one of its tests, so the error isn't entirely
> harmless, but if the resulting m4 seems to be working ok then it is
> probably no cause for serious alarm.

yes for me m4 worked fine and that was my assumption.

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> p.
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