clone 677861 -1 reassign -1 src:lftp,src:gnulib,src:eglibc,src:kfreebsd-kernel-headers retitle -1 gnulib overriding stdint.h for C++11 change severity -1 normal thanks
Hi, There might have been a more elegant way to address this in lftp, but the patch approved for t-p-u should be okay for wheezy and is hopefully only temporary. I would have preferred to revert the gnulib stdint.m4 change[1] which triggered this regression, so that system headers are used as before and not interfered with. [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/m4/stdint.m4?id=501af6ba6cbdb199856d2a12f8a1ee754e7bd2ae On 12/12/12 15:31, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > A much better solution would have been to actually fix the kFreeBSD > system headers! [...] kFreeBSD brokenness [...] I don't think that is clear; I'd say there were three separate problems that led to this (some of which you have mentioned) : 1. C++11 seems to have changed the requirements of stdint.h, to do something which was specifically prohibited by C99, and neither current GNU libc nor FreeBSD libc are doing this; it is a C header after all, and C++11 even introduces a <cstdint> for this purpose so I don't see why they had to rewrite history 2. gnulib saw this change in the standards as a new 'portability issue to be fixed'[2] and therefore chooses to override the system header (actually on GNU/Linux *as well as* GNU/kFreeBSD) which had been perfectly adequate for lftp until now 3. by overriding stdint.h and system types, gnulib causes some (unexplained yet?) problem for GNU/kFreeBSD system headers (but maybe that's not surprising when it is overriding system types) [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/diff/doc/posix-headers/stdint.texi?id=443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc13&context=24 Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org