On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:47:02PM +0100, werner maes wrote:
> >Would you believe one line?
> >Alphas don't like it when you mix char* with int
> >I've reported this bug on this list previously about 3 weeks ago,
> >some title like severe bug found in 3.7.4
> >Ref Debian bug 83231 "Segmentation fault on lprng startup"
> >
> >-{ "direct", 0, STRING_K, &Direct_DYN,0,0},
> >+{ "direct", 0, INTEGER_K, &Direct_DYN,0,0},
> >
> >It dies in get parms because it tries to put an integer into a char*
> >and the Alpha has big 'uns compared to i386.
> >The Alpha is great for picking up this sort of stuff.
>
> Thanks for your reply,
>
> But how do I fix this problem?
> On the official lprng website you can only find version 3.7.4.
> How do I use the lprng_3.7.4-2.diff file which I fetched from the debian
> ftp site to update this package?
That patch probably has a lot of stuff you don't need, to just put this
fix in, edit src/common/vars.c and around line 189 you''ll see the line
that starts with - as above and has STRING_K, change that to INTEGER_K and
recompile.
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