Paul Crawford posted on Wed, 05 Feb 2014 01:39:03 +0000 as excerpted: > On 04/02/14 01:01, walt wrote: >> I've been looking for electric fence (efence) and running into 404's >> everywhere. Valgrind is easily available, so I'll try to learn how to >> use it -- results not guaranteed :) > > Really? On a typical Debian machine (like Ubuntu) you just install the > library with: > > apt-get install electric-fence > > Then edit the make file to add "-lefence" to the library options. For > example you might end up a line like this: > > LIBS = -lrt -lefence
I've never used electric fence but had heard of it. So this thread had me checking gentoo for it. Didn't find it, but did find a "last-rites" announcement (and subsequent removal from tree) on the gentoo-dev list in Aug 2009, which mentioned its replacement: duma. (dev-util/duma on gentoo.) So try looking for duma (Detect Unintended Memory Access). =:^) Gentoo has versions 2.5.13 and 2.5.15-r1 (-r1 signifying a gentoo package bump of the same upstream version). Based on the gentoo package changelog, 2.5.15 was introduced in Aug, 2009 (hmm, may not be coincidental with efence removal), with the -r1 introduced in Apr 2010. According to the gentoo package, duma upstream is: http://duma.sourceforge.net ... which lists it as a fork of Bruce Perens' electric fence. And duma 2.5.15 appears to be the latest version on sourceforge as well. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
