The socket code in wxWidgets doesn't initialize the servent_data structure that is passed to getservbyname_r(). Programs that use this code die with a segfault. The attached patch zero-fills the buffer with memset(). I've sent a bug report to the upstream maintainers (ticket #10332).
? wxWidgets-2.8.7-port.diff Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/x11/wxWidgets/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.13 diff -u -r1.13 Makefile --- Makefile 11 Nov 2008 17:19:34 -0000 1.13 +++ Makefile 5 Jan 2009 17:26:24 -0000 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ COMMENT= c++ cross-platform GUI toolkit DISTNAME= wxWidgets-2.8.7 -PKGNAME= wxWidgets-gtk2-2.8.7p0 +PKGNAME= wxWidgets-gtk2-2.8.7p1 SHARED_LIBS= wx_base 1.0 \ wx_base_net 1.0 \ wx_base_odbc 1.0 \ Index: patches/patch-src_unix_gsocket_cpp =================================================================== RCS file: patches/patch-src_unix_gsocket_cpp diff -N patches/patch-src_unix_gsocket_cpp --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ patches/patch-src_unix_gsocket_cpp 5 Jan 2009 17:26:24 -0000 @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +$OpenBSD$ +--- src/unix/gsocket.cpp.orig Wed Nov 21 13:43:17 2007 ++++ src/unix/gsocket.cpp Mon Jan 5 16:26:31 2009 +@@ -2116,6 +2116,7 @@ GSocketError GAddress_INET_SetPortName(GAddress *addre + char buffer[1024]; + #endif + struct servent serv; ++ memset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer)); + se = wxGetservbyname_r(port, protocol, &serv, + (void*)&buffer, sizeof(buffer)); + if (!se)