GT 4.0.4 Incremental Release Notes: C Common Libraries

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Changes Summary
3. Bug Fixes
4. Known Problems
5. For More Information

1. Introduction

These release notes are for the incremental release 4.0.4. It includes a summary of changes since 4.0.3, bug fixes since 4.0.3 and any known problems that still exist at the time of the 4.0.4 release. This page is in addition to the top-level 4.0.4 release notes at http://www.globus.org/toolkit/releasenotes/4.0.4.

For release notes about 4.0 (including feature summary, technology dependencies, etc) go to the C Common Libraries 4.0 Release Notes.

2. Changes Summary

No changes have been made for the C common libraries since 4.0.3 other than the listed bugfixes.

3. Bug Fixes

  • Bug 4585: Need to allow intel cc (icc) for x86_64 as a vendorcc flavor
  • Bug 4586: int64_t not defined on Suse9/x86_64 for non-gcc compilers
  • Bug 4942: Workaround getnameinfo bug in OS X on Intel
  • Bug 4966: Crash in globus_uuid_create on OS X x86_64

4. Known Problems

  • Bug 484: Mem leak on deactivate_all
  • Bug 686: globus_mutex_lock() behaves differently on Unix -vs- Win32
  • Bug 930: inttypes.h included without testing if it's present
  • Bug 1141: Misleading error messages using globus-makefile-header
  • Bug 2791: Command globus-domainname needs g11n
  • Bug 2793: Command globus-generalized-time needs g11n
  • Bug 2794: Command globus-hostname needs g11n
  • Bug 3081: Small leak in libltldl
  • Bug 3107: Fatal error: tcp_init(): globus_io_tcp_create_listener() ...
  • Bug 3436: globus_uuid MAC address retrieval doesn't work on solaris
  • Bug 3509: GLOBUS_COMMON_MODULE->GLOBUS_CALLBACK_MODULE deactivation...
  • Bug 3610: globus-makefile-header returns bad field
  • Bug 4035: MacOS threading issues
  • Bug 4097: Signal handling probrem on MacOS X
  • Bug 4318: Pkgdata needs to make source dir explicit
  • Bug 4348: globus-makefile-header generates invalid makefile for Index Service bindings

5. For More Information

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