[clamav-users] daily.cvd: Malformed database

[MAYER Hans]

Dear all,

Thanks for your feedback. 
In the meantime I could compile the latest version on Solaris 11.2 and run successfully. 
But not on Solaris 10. Here it compiles but does not run.
The difference is the following
On Solaris 11 I have gcc version 4.5.2
On Solaris 10 I have gcc version 3.4.3 
Maybe this is a hint too. 
Generally I have to say I have a cookbook how to compile. This I follow using ClamAV since ages ( definitely more than 10 year ) 
But I will follow your ideas too. 
To answer Ged's question. Yes, it's an upgrade. 

Kind regards and 73 
Hans


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Fortescue [mailto:mark.lists at thurning-instruments.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 12:04 PM
To: MAYER Hans
Cc: clamav-users at lists.clamav.net
Subject: Re: [clamav-users] daily.cvd: Malformed database

Hi Hans,

As you are using SPARC, it may be that someone has changed and/or incorrectly compiled something so that a variable is being read using the wrong byte alignment. ARM also has byte alignment constraints.

Try running 'gdb --args /usr/local/sbin/clamd --debug' or use an equivalent dbx command.

This should help track down the issue.

On x86, there are only performance hits if the alignment is wrong so x86 developers rarely know that they have messed up the alignment because you don't even get a compiler warning. One reason why developers should use SPARC and ARM in addition to x86 for testing.

Regards
	Mark.