From d3bda105b0f42aec03e8914711ed52fca1ef1848 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stelian Ionescu Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 01:17:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add warning about libfixposix package in Debian --- README.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index fdf932b..f0b0b85 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ https://github.com/sionescu/libfixposix - and its headers in order to compile. LibFixPOSIX can either be installed manually, for which there are instructions in the source code, or through distro repositories. +As of Debian 9.0 Stable, the libfixposix package uses code from 2011, +which is incompatible with the current IOlib and will cause a SEGFAULT +on load. Don't use it. + * Tests Some of the socket tests require an echo server, the default being one on the Internet. If you can't use that, set -- 2.11.4.GIT