Re: Re: [gdal-dev] [SOLVED] GDAL crashing on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-03-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:53:59PM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote: > > Yes, the link between OSGeo projects and *some* distro trackers is to > be improved while other distros already started to better communicate (it > should be in *their* interest, too!). > Some distros communicates, some others n

Re: Re: [gdal-dev] [SOLVED] GDAL crashing on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-03-18 Thread Markus Neteler
2009/3/18 Even Rouault : > Thanks Markus. > > However I'm a bit concerned that this bug appears to have been known since a > few months by some distro, not only Ubuntu... Distro bug trackers are > certainly a useful thing, but unfortunately what comes in them has a high > change of getting unnotice

Fwd: Re: [gdal-dev] [SOLVED] GDAL crashing on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-03-18 Thread Even Rouault
Thanks Markus. However I'm a bit concerned that this bug appears to have been known since a few months by some distro, not only Ubuntu... Distro bug trackers are certainly a useful thing, but unfortunately what comes in them has a high change of getting unnoticed here. Not sure how that could g

[gdal-dev] [SOLVED] GDAL crashing on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-03-17 Thread Even Rouault
Hi all, Several users have reported over the past few weeks various crashes when running GDAL, in particular in OGRFeature::GetFieldAsString(). It has been finally identified that it was due to stricter guard logic in GCC that was enabled in Ubuntu 8.10 and later versions because -D_FORTIFY_SOU