On Tue 30 Nov 2004 15:22, Steve Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:54:00PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > Steve Peters wrote: > > > I looked into these failures a bit last night. The problem is that the > > > function getservbyname_r() is defined within the OpenBSD library, but no > > > prototype is defined in any .h file. The smoke test, by default, assumes > > > getservbyname_r() is available, but never comes up with a proper prototype > > > to use for the function. This leads to the test failures. Configuring > > > by > > > hand with -Duseithreads leads to a clean compile and no test failures. > > > > So maybe should it be disabled in a hints file ? > > What do you mean, Configuring by hand ? what's different in the smoke > > process ? > > When running Configure -Duseithreads, when it reaches the tests for > getservbyname_r(), Configure attempts to find the prototype and fails. It > then asks whether to use the default, which is to define getservbyname_r(), or > to override that. It appears that the smoke test just assumes > getservbyname_r without confirming the prototype.
Correct. smoke runs Configure -des -s is silent, -d is default answer so it newer stops for a question (which would make smoke runs last indefinitely) > It does raise a bigger question of why getservbyname_r() is used if no > prototype is found, since the prototype can vary by libc implementation. Hairy code from Jarkko. I still don't want to understand that bit -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.5, & 5.9.x, and 809 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, 11i, AIX 4.3, AIX 5.2, SuSE 9.1, and Win2k. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] send smoke reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], QA: http://qa.perl.org
