Bug#758673: seed: bogus path_max handling, breaks libpeas on hurd-i386

[Pino Toscano]

forwarded 758673 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733393
tag 758673 + fixed-upstream
thanks

Hi,

On 2014-08-19 23:09, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Source: seed
> Version: 3.8.1-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> User: debian-hurd at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: hurd
>
> Hello,
>
> The seed package has some code to cope with the absence of PATH_MAX
> limitation, but it is bogus: it tests whether the value returned by
> pathconf (absolute_path, _PC_PATH_MAX) is negative, but it does so by
> putting it in a gsize, which is unsigned. The attached patch fixes it 
> by
> making it use a gssize.

I reported it directly upstream one month ago, see
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733393

See also debian #755259 for few details more.

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Pino Toscano