Re: vsnprintf

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

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On Wed, 20 May 1998, robert havoc pennington wrote:

> On 20 May 1998, Raja R Harinath wrote:
> > 
> > I guess we'll have to look at the `config.log' of `gnome-libs'.  For
> > some reason, `configure' thinks that:
> > 
> > 	1) You don't have `vsnprintf'
> > 	2) You don't have `scandir'
> > 	3) You don't have a `dirent.h'
> > 

Ok, he has vsnprintf and scandir (I didn't look at the dirent stuff).

> I should have included more information before, I'm sorry. Kind of
> distracted. Here's the parts of config.log that look relevant to me, and
> the whole thing is at http://pobox.com/~hp/config.log. I built on my same
> old Linux box same as ever; I think it started breaking yesterday or so,
> this week anyway. Probably I'm doing something dumb. Thanks for having a
> look...
> 
> Actually, come to think of it I think I may have just changed from using
> real intl/macros/support directories to symlinks into gnome-common; that's
> been working for most of gnome-* but I hadn't tried it for gnome-libs. 
> Guess it doesn't work that way. ;-)  That is probably it. I can't think of
> anything else that's changed. 

I looked at your config.log - there's no error when it checks for
vsnprintf(). This will normally #define HAVE_VSNPRINTF in config.h.
So far so good. But you got an error with a prototype in
'support/gnomesupport.h' - this file is automatically generated from
'support/gnomesupport-h.c' and it only emits a prototype for vsnprintf()
if HAVE_VSNPRINTF is not defined.

If you made 'support' a symlink that may have fooled the dependency
tracking system of automake so that it didn't rebuild gnomesupport.h from
gnomesupport-h.c when your config.h changed. Perhaps your gnomesupport.h
was build when config.h did not define HAVE_VSNPRINTF for any reason.

You should try to checkout a new copy of gnome-common/support and try it
again. If this does not help, look at your config.h if it really defines
HAVE_VSNPRINTF (if your /usr/include/stdio.h defines that function, you
normally really have it!). If it does, make sure 'support/gnomesupport-h.c'
really uses that config.h and not some other.

Martin

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