Re: alpha/sid machine available?

["Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins@videotron.ca>]

Hello,

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 05:35:49PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> "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

Thanks very much Falk!

Lars: there is also a macro for vsnprintf() at
  http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/C_Support/ac_func_vsnprintf.html
that you might consider snarfing.


-Steve

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