Re: Kerberos4KTH patch
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 12:19:32PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> (Old thread, but...)
>
> Tom Rini wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:38:18PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> >
> > > I noticed the kerberos4kth packages aren't in non-us for PPC or ARM.
> > > I've attached a patch which makes it build and work (basically the same
> > > as my old one), but the maintainer (Greg Stark) doesn't like it. His
> > > objections:
> > >
> > > * The int arguments in va_arg calls should break shorts, and also
> > > longs on 64-bit platforms. And yet, it builds with the patch,
> > > doesn't without it. Tom Rini, your 12/15/99 debian-powerpc post
> > > was the basis of that part of the patch, do you know what's going
> > > on? Is va_args somehow broken for PPC and/or ARM.
> >
> > IIRC, my patch was accepted upstream around the same time I posted on
> > debian-powerpc. It of course wasn't important enough to warrent a new
> > release of the package.
>
> Apparently, your patch was undone at some point before 1.0, or else someone
> added new va_args material which required my new patch. Can you point to
> somewhere in the new source where your va_args work is there, so the
> maintainer (Greg Stark) will accept this part of the patch?
It seems they were undone or just got lost somewhere along the line.
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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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