Re: alpha/sid machine available?

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

"Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins@videotron.ca> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to understand why coin failed to build on alpha
> 
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=coin&ver=1.0.1-1&arch=alpha&stamp=1008211606&file=log&as=raw

It misdetects vsnprintf. It tries to compile

        (void)vsnprintf(0L, 0, 0L, 0L);

which yields

        conversion from `long int' to non-scalar type `__gnuc_va_list' requested

A correct test would be:

        #include <stdarg.h>
        va_list args;
        (void) vsnprintf(NULL, (size_t) 0, NULL, args);

        Falk