Package: pmake
Version: 1.111-1
Severity: important
Justification: fails to build from source

http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=pmake

> gcc -O -g -O2  -g -Wall -D__COPYRIGHT\(x\)= -D__RCSID\(x\)= -I. 
> -DMACHINE=\"debian\" -DMACHINE_ARCH=\"\" -DHAVE_SETENV -DHAVE_STRERROR 
> -DHAVE_STRDUP -DHAVE_STRFTIME -DHAVE_VSNPRINTF -D_GNU_SOURCE -c arch.c -o 
> arch.o
> arch.c: In function 'Arch_ParseArchive':
> arch.c:402: error: 'MAXPATHLEN' undeclared (first use in this function)
> arch.c:402: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> arch.c:402: error: for each function it appears in.)
> make[1]: *** [arch.o] Error 1

I think this is because the GNU Coding Styles say, no arbitrary
limits, so The Hurd has no limits on pathname lengths…

Proper fix is, I think, to use malloc. (Just die if these are
ridiculously long, from the malloc failure no less.)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pmake depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-26     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

pmake recommends no packages.

pmake suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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