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Re: Bug#133640: some issues still left



Bouncing this back to debian-hurd because I don't have time today and I
don't really grok the code anyway. I've reinserted the patches.

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 08:49:36PM -0300, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 00:50 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> 
> > I've just built a dpkg from a tarball provided by Scott.
> > 
> > There are two-and-a-half issues:
> > 
> > 1. We really need to pass -std=gnu99, otherwise this error appears:
> > 
> > start-stop-daemon.c:775: error: 'for' loop intial declaration used
> > 	outside C99 mode

--- ../cvs/dpkg-1.10.21/utils/Makefile.in
+++ dpkg-1.10.21.ogi.2/utils/Makefile.in
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ endif
        $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)/$(man1dir)
        $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/$(MD5_MANPAGES) $(DESTDIR)/$(man1dir)
                                                                                   
+# When compiled for the Hurd, start-stop-daemon.c should be compiled
+# with C99 features enabled.
+start-stop-daemon.o: CFLAGS += -std=gnu99
 start-stop-daemon: $(SSD_OBJECTS) ../lib/libdpkg.a
        $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(SSD_OBJECTS) $(LIBS) $(SSD_LIBS)
                                                                                   
> Ok, can we have this macro removed and replaced with a C90 equivalent
> then?
> 
> > 2. One part of Neal's patch did not get applied yet, and I still get
> > segfaults without it (and it's fine after applying it): 

(utils/start-stop-daemon.c)
@@ -722,6 +724,14 @@ check_all (void *ptr)
                                                                                   
 static void
 do_procinit(void)
+{
+        /* Nothing to do. */
+}
+
+static void do_libpsinit(void)  __attribute__ ((constructor));
+
+static void
+do_libpsinit(void)
 {
        struct ps_context *context;
        error_t err;

> This bit is clearly crack; I'm not going to add a constructor function
> -- find a better way to do this.

> Scott


Michael

-- 
Michael Banck
Debian Developer
mbanck@debian.org
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