John Stowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
I Agree. AIUI the benefit of pascal strings when transmitted is that the
decoder does not need to know its length ahead of time. The requirement
that the unpack pascal format string be given the length of the string
makes the implemen
John Stowers added the comment:
I created config.cache and populated it with
ac_cv_printf_zd_format=yes
before executing the following
./configure --prefix /home/john/jhbuild/win32/build/
--build=i686-pc-linux-gnuaout --host=i586-pc-mingw32msvc
--target=i586-pc-mingw32msvc --disable-docs
John Stowers added the comment:
Sorry, I should have clarified further in my last comment. Looking over
the configure script I don't recognize the %zd test as one that could be
circumvented by supplying a config.cache file with the appropriate values.
How do I escape this limit
John Stowers added the comment:
Hello,
I recently tried this in combination with jhbuild, cross compiling with
mingw (to built some python gtk extensions). I tried you patch against
the 2.5.1 version and recieved the following error:
checking for /dev/ptmx... yes
checking for /dev/ptc... no
