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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:54:00PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > Steve Peters wrote: > > I looked into these failures a bit last night. The problem is that the > > function getservbyname_r() is defined within the OpenBSD library, but no > > prototype is defined in any .h file. The smoke test, by default, assumes > > getservbyname_r() is available, but never comes up with a proper prototype > > to use for the function. This leads to the test failures. Configuring by > > hand with -Duseithreads leads to a clean compile and no test failures. > > So maybe should it be disabled in a hints file ? > What do you mean, Configuring by hand ? what's different in the smoke process ? When running Configure -Duseithreads, when it reaches the tests for getservbyname_r(), Configure attempts to find the prototype and fails. It then asks whether to use the default, which is to define getservbyname_r(), or to override that. It appears that the smoke test just assumes getservbyname_r without confirming the prototype. It does raise a bigger question of why getservbyname_r() is used if no prototype is found, since the prototype can vary by libc implementation. Steve Peters steve@fisharerojo.orgThread Previous | Thread Next