Hi, I've got a FTBFS on IA64 with this error:
/usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:49: error: array bound is not an integer constant I consulted with upstream and got the reply attached bellow. Can you confirm? I'll open a bug report about this. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: efax-gtk-3.0.3 released Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 14:00:32 +0100 From: Chris Vine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tuesday 02 August 2005 22:28, you wrote: > Hi, > > The package was uploaded today. There's a build failure on ia64. > > /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:49: error: array bound is not an integer > constant > > full log at > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=efax-gtk&ver=3.0.3-1&arch=ia64&stam > p=1122974298&file=log&as=raw > > Can you send me a patch, so I'll upload another version? > Hi Lior, This looks as if it is a problem with the glibc header files provided with Debian IA64 (in particular with /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h). The error reported is that an array bound at line 49 of that file is not an integer constant. At a guess this is caused by /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h not using the subset of C99 which is compatible with C++, as C99 allows non-constant array initialisation sizes, whereas the C++ and the pre-1999 C standards do not (so you can expect most C++ programs to fail to compile for IA64). /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h is a file which comes with glibc. I suggest you contact the maintainer of glibc for Debian IA64. As a fix there may be a g++ compiler flag which allows non-constant array bounds in C++ as an extension, and which would enable C++ programs to be compiled with IA64, but it would not be appropriate to deal with this in the configuration for any particular program. Regards, Chris. -- Regards, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Guides.co.il Debian GNU/Linux unstable (SID) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
