-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Gary E. Barnes on 11/6/2007 12:42 PM:
[adding the gnulib list] > There is no snprintf on the system. If I modify src/system.c to call > sprintf instead of snprintf I can link tar. But then "make check" fails > when trying to compile argcv.c. gnulib should be able to work around this. You should never replace snprintf with sprintf, because it introduces a potential security hole. It sounds like tar needs to use the snprintf module. > > I can then add -Drestrict= to the CPPFLAGS. Things then compile but genfile > cannot be linked because the system doesn't have a fseeko routine in the > library. gnulib should also be able to work around this. It sounds like tar needs to use the fseeko module. > > Gary > > 4.4.2c-coralsea 107: uname -a > OSF1 coralsea V4.0 878 alpha alpha unknown Tru64 > > > Add -Drestrict= to the CPPFLAGS and then.... This was recently changed in autoconf and gnulib, so hopefully future versions of tar will also make this step unnecessary. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHMRQe84KuGfSFAYARAryHAJ4/kohNXZsi2aUKhsFrSi5n6qDgKQCeMka7 8mJSyyMa9Ce6gSe9ekSS08I= =AH2p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
