RHBA-2011:0965 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated graphviz packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Graphviz is graph visualization software used to represent structural
information as diagrams, abstract graphs or networks.

These updated graphviz packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

• Several links in the Graphviz Documentation Index file led to nonexistent or

incorrectly named files. This update fixes these links so that their targets
resolve correctly. (BZ#624658)

• The graphviz test suite was disabled on the PowerPC, 64-bit PowerPC and

SPARC64 architectures due to unexpected terminations with segmentation faults.
The test code used in the test suite did not set the TextLayout plugin
correctly, which led to the crash of the test suite. This has been fixed and the
test suite passes on all architectures. (BZ#624690)

• Prior to this update, the About dialog box displayed "<unknown>" instead of

the real name of the DotEdit utility. This has been fixed and the name is now
displayed correctly. (BZ#640247)

• When using the graphviz utility with PHP, the gv.so module did not load and

displayed the following error message:

/usr/lib64/php/modules/gv.so' - /usr/lib64/php/modules/gv.so: undefined
symbol: zend_error_noreturn in Unknown on line 0

This was caused by the SWIG tool which used the zend_error_noreturn() function
to build the PHP module. SWIG has been modified and the bug no longer occurs.
(BZ#679715)

All users of graphviz are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat
Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 624658 - Broken links in HTML documentation
• BZ - 624690 - Enable and fix testsuite in graphviz
• BZ - 640247 - Missing program name in DotEdit: Help -> About
• BZ - 679715 - gv.so (php module) does not load: undefined symbol: zend_error_noreturn

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)