Re: Netsurf build failure: 'PATH_MAX' undeclared
On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 6:57 AM João Pedro Malhado <phlogiston@sapo.pt> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 01:39:58PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > João Pedro Malhado, le jeu. 22 avril 2021 13:10:04 +0200, a ecrit:
> > > > src/time.c:25:10: fatal error: mach/clock.h: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=netsurf
> > >
> > > Is this something easy to fix and patch?
> >
> > Yes, see https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/porting/guidelines.html#mach_clock
> >
> > > would there be other packages in the repository affected by the same
> > > problem?
> >
> > Various packages wrongly think that mach == apple. The fix is usually
> > very simple.
>
> Thank you Samuel for the useful pointers.
>
> I made some simple changes to the time.c file and the build went on, only to
> fail at some later stage. The error that I'm getting is:
>
> frontends/gtk/fetch.c: In function 'nsgtk_get_resource_url':
> frontends/gtk/fetch.c:252:11: error: 'PATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this
> function)
> 252 | char buf[PATH_MAX];
>
> Now, the only C I know is what I can guess from other programming languages I'm
> familiar with, but this seems simple and not very hurd specific. However the
> build does not seem to have any problems on other platforms, so I don't know.
> Anyone has an idea on how to best approach this?
Ensure you are including <limits.h> in the source file. That's usually
the place PATH_MAX is defined.
You can search for symbols on the Posix website at https://pubs.opengroup.org:
https://www.google.com/search?q=PATH_MAX+site:pubs.opengroup.org
Jeff
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