[GRASS5] Fw: [DebianGIS-dev] Bug#336498: grass: broken macro LOC_CHECK_VERSION (also FTBFS on GNU/FreeBSD)

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:36:38AM +0200, Wolf Bergenheim wrote:
> On 03/11/05 16:57, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to modify 'configure.in' for this problem?
> > 
> 
> LOC_CHECK_VERSION does 2 tests. First it tries to compile this program:
> #include "confdefs.h"
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <proj_api.h>
> int main(void) {
>  FILE *fp = fopen("conftestdata","w");
>  fputs(PJ_VERSION, fp);
>  return 0;
> }
> 
> Since PJ_VERSION is defined to be 449 or some similar number this will
> produce a compiler warning. -Werror will make gcc act as if warning are
> errors ==> compilation fails and this is never run. The macro then tries
> to build this program:
> 

Someone could ask WHY someone would write an int using fputs(), BTW.
445 is not "445"...

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Francesco P. Lovergine