The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 86ec744869dc82cf5d79af5fa96c4dbd09eaebc3
Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Date: Sun Sep 25 03:20:55 2011 +0200
build: Check for the presence of the strnlen declaration
This will define the HAVE_DECL_STRNLEN macro, needed so that the
strnlen.h declares the function in case the system lacks it.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index cef148e..b514716 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ DPKG_CHECK_PROGNAME
DPKG_CHECK_COMPAT_FUNCS([getopt getopt_long obstack_free \
strnlen strerror strsignal asprintf \
scandir alphasort unsetenv])
+AC_CHECK_DECLS([strnlen], [[#include <string.h>]])
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strtoul strtoimax isascii memcpy setsid getdtablesize \
getprogname getexecname lutimes posix_fadvise])
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a53d077..b8e527d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ dpkg (1.16.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
the obstack compat module from gnulib.
* Link the libdpkg unit tests with libcompat and libintl, so that systems
needing them will compile correctly.
+ * Check for the presence of the strnlen declaration and correctly provide
+ the compat one in case the systems lacks it.
[ Updated man page translations ]
* German (Helge Kreutzmann).
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