On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:48:29PM +0000, higuita wrote: > Hi > > I'm using the libxml2 2.7.7 with zlib 1.2.5 in a > slackware64-current system and i'm having crashes in firefox > and in claws-mail RSS feeder plugin. > > in both cases i see that libxml2 is called then zlib, > returning a crash. Downgrading zlib and libxml2 to the last > stable slackware release the problem disappears (libxml2 2.7.6 > and zlib 1.2.3).
http://xmlsoft.org/news.html 2.7.7 Bug Fixes: libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes (Mark Adler) [...] > > So is there any known or new problem of libxml2 2.7.7 with zlib > 1.2.5? or should i try to build zlib with debug and report back? > So 2.7.7 should avoid the bug precisely, but for any zlib more recent than 1.2.4 (IIRC) 2.7.7 should work, not crash. Are you sure it's not a problem with an embedded version of libxml2 in your browser ? Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
