[Bug 997359] Re: nih uses eglibc private symbol __abort_msg

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  nih uses eglibc private symbol __abort_msg

Status in NIH Utility Library:
  New
Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “libnih” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  NIH uses the private eglibc '__abort_msg' symbol to save a string
  explaining why nih_assert() failed. However, __abort_msg is not a
  public symbol which causes problems when libc is upgraded - it
  actually necessitates that for every libc upgrade on, for example,
  Ubuntu systems the following has to happen:

  1) eglibc is upgraded with a version set to <version>~foo
  2) nih is rebuilt against the eglibc version
  3) nih is upgraded.
  4) the eglibc package is upgraded *again* to drop the ~foo.

  The symbol can be made use of like this:

  $ cat >foo.c<<EOF
  int
  main(int argc, char *argv[])
  {
      nih_log_set_priority (NIH_LOG_FATAL);
      nih_assert (0 == 1);

      exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
  }
  EOF
  $ gcc -std=gnu99 -g -Wall -pedantic -o foo foo.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs libnih`
  $ ./foo
  (null):nih_make_core.c:46: Assertion failed in main: 0 == 1
  Aborted (core dumped)
  $ gdb foo core.1597
  GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4-2012.04-0ubuntu1) 7.4-2012.04
  Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
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  This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu".
  For bug reporting instructions, please see:
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  Reading symbols from /home/james/src/c/foo...done.
  [New LWP 1597]
  [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
  Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
  Core was generated by `foo'.
  Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
  #0  0xb770d1b2 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
  (gdb) p (char *)__abort_msg
  $1 = 0x93fa098 "nih_make_core.c:46: Assertion failed in main: 0 == 1"
  (gdb)

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