At 11:37 PM 1/3/03 +0100, you (Gwenole Beauchesne) wrote: (...glibc 2.1.3 errno problem)
>Then maintainers must fix those packages. People should stop thinking >that errno is a variable, which is not guaranteed to be so, which >actually is not with recent enough libc. Note that in Debian a temporary hack has been done to allow such apps to compile : http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=3E08B24C.90 20508%40vianet.ca (if the link is broken, search in Google for a linux.debian.maint.glibc thread on 24 dec 2002 titled 'Status of glibc-2.3.1-{6,7} ') Note also that fixing the app may be not trivial in some cases; if the 'extern int errno' has been done to grab another errno than the glibc one, the xlib static errno for example, fixing is not as easy as adding #include <errno.h> Gerard
