Re: dovecot: FTBFS on hurd-i386 (for review)

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com>]

On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 01:06 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 14:07:18 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> > Source: dovecot
> > Version: 2.1.7-2
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: patch
> > Usertags: hurd
> > User: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
> 
> > The number of entries of PATH_MAX are too many to make dynamic unless
> > upstream is interested.
> 
> That's a pitty though.

Too much effort if no upstream involved! You never know if the package
maintainer will apply the patch or not.

> __USE_POSIX is an internal macro, and should not be used for feature
> tests, you could as well just test if _POSIX_PIPE_BUF or
> _POSIX_PATH_MAX are defined.

Of course the tests should be for the POSIX_*  cases. A bug report will
follow shortly.

Thanks!