Bug#482303: luatex: getpwnam() implicitly converted to pointer

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

dann frazier wrote:
> Package: luatex
> Version: 0.25.2-1
> Severity: important
> Usertags: implicit-pointer-conversion
>
> Our automated buildd log filter[1] detected a problem that is likely to
> cause your package to segfault on architectures where the size of a
> pointer is greater than the size of an integer, such as ia64 and amd64.
>
>   Function `getpwnam' implicitly converted to pointer at ../../../src/texk/kpathsea/tilde.c:103
>
> This is often due to a missing function prototype definition.
> For more information, see [2].
>
> luatex provides its own pwd.h file which is getting included instead
> of the system pwd.h file and does not include a prototype for
> getpwnam(). If the luatex pwd.h file is not available in the include
> path, the system one gets properly included:

Thanks, I have come up with a solution where luatex is
using the system-wide pwd.h except while crosscompiling
for win32 (that is what the file was there for).

Best wishes,
Taco