On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]> wrote:
> Kaashif Hymabaccus wrote on Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 01:09:41PM +0100: > > > I tried to update www/newsbeuter to 2.8, and I thought it would be easy, > > considering that all of the patches to 2.7 had been merged upstream, so > > there was no need for any of them. I updated the Makefile and tried to > > compile newsbeuter 2.8, only to find it uses the libc function wordexp, > > which is not implemented in OpenBSD. > ... > > Isn't there something else that can be done, or is getting everyone > > to stop using it the only option? > > Ultimately, the only thing you can do about low-quality software > is stop using it and use (or write or fork) something better. > In this case, the code only uses wordexp() to expand a path in a config file variable, the path to the file holding.... <wait for it...> your google reader password! Yes, the current version of this software was released almost two months after google reader was shut down, which was in turn over a year ago. I don't think you're going to be missing anything if you just disable that code... Philip Guenther
