Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.1.11 Severity: important Hello,
this is one of the many things that needs to be fixed for the Hurd. It is of course not release critical for Linux. PATH_MAX is not defined on the Hurd, there is no arbitrary limit. I suggest changing the code in main/help.c to use appropriate combinations of strdup or malloc/realloc with strlen. This shouldn't be too hard, but I leave it to you to implement this properly (as the exact way to do this is mostly personal preference). Alternatively, as a quick hack, you can simply put #ifndef PATH_MAX #define PATH_MAX 4096 #endif at the top of the file. (The use of PATH_MAX is not overly important here) Or you use sysconf to query a limit if it exists, and if not, you use one of the above methods. Thanks, Marcus -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux ulysses 2.2.12 #7 Mon Sep 27 01:09:52 CEST 1999 i586 unknown Versions of the packages dpkg depends on: hi libc6 2.1.2-0pre11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone hi libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-0pre2 The GNU stdc++ library ii libncurses4 4.2-3.3 Shared libraries for terminal handling
