diff -upk.orig scrollkeeper-0.3.14.orig/libs/database.c scrollkeeper-0.3.14/libs/database.c
--- scrollkeeper-0.3.14.orig/libs/database.c	2002-06-02 06:03:10 +0000
+++ scrollkeeper-0.3.14/libs/database.c	2007-06-26 12:34:52 +0000
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  */
  
 #include <config.h>
+#include <limits.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <stddef.h>
@@ -27,9 +28,6 @@
 #include <dirent.h>
 #include <scrollkeeper.h>
 
-#define PATHLEN		256
-
-
 /*
  * Create a directory.  Send errors to appropriate places (STDOUT and log 
  * file) according to command-line flags.
@@ -55,7 +53,7 @@ static int sk_mkdir(char *path, mode_t o
  */
 int sk_mkdir_with_parents(char *fullpath, mode_t options, char outputprefs)
 {
-    char path[1024];
+    char path[PATH_MAX];
     char slash[]="/";
     char delim[]="/";
     char *token, *pathcopy;
@@ -63,15 +61,16 @@ int sk_mkdir_with_parents(char *fullpath
 
     pathcopy = strdup(fullpath); /* Copy b/c strtok edits the string it operates on */
     path[0] = '\0';              /* Initialize with end of string null character */
-    if (pathcopy[0] == slash[0]) sprintf(path, "/"); /* preserve any starting slash */
+    if (pathcopy[0] == slash[0]) strcpy(path, "/"); /* preserve any starting slash */
      
     token = strtok (pathcopy, delim);
     delim[0]=slash[0];
     while(token != NULL) {
         if (strlen(path) == 0 || ((strlen(path) == 1) && (path[0] == slash[0]))) {
-                sprintf(path, "%s%s", path, token);
+                strncat(path, token, sizeof(path) - 1);
         } else {
-                sprintf(path, "%s/%s", path, token);
+                strncat(path, "/", sizeof(path) - 1);
+                strncat(path, token, sizeof(path) - 1);
         }
         if (stat(path, &buf) == -1) {
             if (sk_mkdir(path, options, outputprefs) != 0) {
diff -upk.orig scrollkeeper-0.3.14.orig/libs/install.c scrollkeeper-0.3.14/libs/install.c
--- scrollkeeper-0.3.14.orig/libs/install.c	2003-09-03 10:33:52 +0000
+++ scrollkeeper-0.3.14/libs/install.c	2007-06-26 12:34:11 +0000
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 #define _(String) gettext (String)
 
 #define SEP		"|"
-#define PATHLEN		256
 
 #ifdef SOLARIS
 /*extern char *strtok_r(char *, const char *, char **);*/
diff -upk.orig scrollkeeper-0.3.14.orig/libs/scrollkeeper.h.in scrollkeeper-0.3.14/libs/scrollkeeper.h.in
--- scrollkeeper-0.3.14.orig/libs/scrollkeeper.h.in	2003-06-23 09:00:44 +0000
+++ scrollkeeper-0.3.14/libs/scrollkeeper.h.in	2007-06-26 12:34:11 +0000
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 #define SCROLLKEEPERLOGFILE "@localstatedir@/log/scrollkeeper.log"
 #define SCROLLKEEPERLOGFILE_ROT "@localstatedir@/log/scrollkeeper.log.1"
 #define SCROLLKEEPER_OMF_DTD "@prefix@/share/xml/scrollkeeper/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd"
-#define PATHLEN		256
+#define PATHLEN		PATH_MAX
 
 /*
  *
diff -upk.orig scrollkeeper-0.3.14.orig/libs/uninstall.c scrollkeeper-0.3.14/libs/uninstall.c
--- scrollkeeper-0.3.14.orig/libs/uninstall.c	2003-12-02 08:09:56 +0000
+++ scrollkeeper-0.3.14/libs/uninstall.c	2007-06-26 12:34:11 +0000
@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@
 
 #define _(String) gettext (String)
 
-#define PATHLEN		256
-
 struct IdTab {
     int id;
     char *locale;