Bug#193748: marked as done (debian-policy: gcc-3.3 no longer has <varargs.h>)
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Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 15:41:45 +0100
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
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Subject: debian-policy: gcc-3.3 no longer has <varargs.h>
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In gcc-3.3, which is now the default C compiler in unstable, <varargs.h>
just does the following:
#error "GCC no longer implements <varargs.h>."
#error "Revise your code to use <stdarg.h>."
Policy currently says:
The include file `<varargs.h>' is provided to support end-users
compiling very old software; the library `libtermcap' is provided to
support the execution of software which has been linked against it
(either old programs or those such as Netscape which are only
available in binary form).
Debian packages should be patched to use `<stdarg.h>' and `ncurses'
instead.
In light of recent changes, I suggest that policy should instead say:
The include file `<varargs.h>' was once provided to support
end-users compiling very old software; the library `libtermcap' is
provided to support the execution of software which has been linked
against it (either old programs or those such as Netscape which are
only available in binary form).
Debian packages using `<varargs.h>' must be patched to use
`<stdarg.h>' instead; packages using `libtermcap' should be patched
to use `ncurses' instead.
(The extra "must" is really just informational, since anything that
tries to use <varargs.h> without hacks to build-depend on some older
version of gcc has a serious bug anyway due to not building from
source.)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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Subject: Re: Bug#193748: debian-policy: gcc-3.3 no longer has <varargs.h>
References: <20030518144127.GA4227@arborlon>
From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
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Hi,
The new rewording of policy seems to have gotten rid of the
offending recommendation; so this report can now be closed. Indeed, I
can't find the string varargs anywhere in current policy. In any
case, packages with such ancient constructs shall soon fail to build
from source, so this policy edict was redundant.
manoj
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