Bug#675845: Re: Bug#675845: adanaxisgpl: FTBFS:

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 03:26:49 +0000, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> Control: found -1 1.2.5.dfsg.1-4.1
> Control: tags -1 + patch

> The problem is a '#define off_t long', which causes a problem later when
> GNU/kFreeBSD headers include <sys/types.h> (again), and try to redefine
> off_t for some reason.
> 
> That only happens because HAVE_OFF_T isn't being set in config.h.  In
> fact it is hard-coded to 0 by default and set to 1 on certain supported
> platforms such as Mac OS X (in rubyconfigure.h).


> With the patch below, then running:
> 
> $ aclocal-1.10 && autoheader && autoconf
> 
> implements a proper detection for off_t and it builds now on
> kfreebsd-amd64.  Also it still builds okay and runs on GNU/Linux amd64.
> 
> --- a/configure.in      2007-10-25 21:38:55.000000000 +0100
> +++ b/configure.in      2012-11-30 02:01:34.039114307 +0000
> @@ -288,6 +288,8 @@
>  ])
>  ])
>  
> +AC_CHECK_TYPES([off_t], [], [], [[#include <sys/types.h>]])
> +

I guess ideally the code would be using AC_TYPE_OFF_T, but as you
mention that the code depends on HAVE_OFF_T, then this might be the
smallest change to accomplish the same thing.

Thanks,
Guillem