Brad Cowan wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 03:01:29 -0500 (EST)
To: Brad Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems with man2hlp
Hello!
I am a developer working with Gentoo Linux, and we been having
problems compiling 4.6.0_pre1 snapshots. This problem arises with
man2hlp, when trying to transform the man pages to help files this
program will totally fill up the build partition/dir on various machines
to which I have not been able to find a common link. Any advice would
be appreciated as the snapshots seem to fix alot of problems and are
coming along nicely.
I have never seen this bug. Maybe my yesterday's fix helps:
2002-11-11 Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
,,,
* man2hlp.c: Warning fixes. size_t can be unsigned.
Try man2hlp.c from CVS, and if it's still broken, I'll have a closer look.
You can get it from LXR:
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/mc/src/man2hlp.c?raw=1
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
After further testing, and doing what u suggested, the filling of entire partition is still happening.
../../src/man2hlp mc.1 ./xnc.hlp mc.hlp.es
This is where the compile does this on the boxes in question.
Can you test attached patch?
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Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov
--- man2hlp.c.ori Tue Nov 12 09:39:40 2002
+++ man2hlp.c Wed Nov 13 16:49:17 2002
@@ -780,6 +780,12 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
}
cont_start = ftell (f_out);
+
+ if (cont_start == -1){
+ perror ("ftell fails");
+ return 1;
+ }
+
if (topics)
fprintf (f_out, "\004[Contents]\n%s\n\n", topics);
else
