On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:12:14AM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote: > You probably want this FAQ entry:
Which, I've been informed, is in fact in README.Debian.gz. > * errno: If a program uses the variable "errno", then it _must_ > include <errno.h>. The old libc often (erroneously) declared this > variable implicitly as a side-effect of including other libc header > files. glibc is careful to avoid such namespace pollution, which, > in turn, means that you really need to include the header files that > you depend on. This difference normally manifests itself in the > form of the compiler complaining about references to an undeclared > symbol "errno". > > Applications that reference errno without including <errno.h> (usually > by doing ``unsigned int errno'') now generate a runtime warning. > Shortly after Sarge releases, they will all break, and there will be a > mass bug-filing. For some reason it looks like either evo or cyrus are > triggering this bug, and it's getting displayed to the imap reader. Yeah, there was another bug against cyrus for this, with patch, but I didn't make any sort of connection. Good to know I've just whacked three bugs for the price of one... <grin> Thanks for digging that up. - Matt
