Bug#669059: webkit-1.8.0-2: FTBFS on hurd-*

[Samuel Thibault]

Svante Signell, le Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:10:42 +0200, a écrit :
> On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 22:30 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, le Mon 16 Apr 2012 22:20:20 +0200, a écrit :
> > > webkit currently FTBFS on hurd-i386, due to the usage of PATH_MAX,
> > > which is only recommended by POSIX, not mandatory,
> > 
> > It's not even recommanded. It's just needed when the limit exists, and
> > shall even not be defined when it depends on the path:
> > 
> > “ A definition of one of the symbolic constants in the following list
> > shall be omitted from the <limits.h> header on specific implementations
> > where the corresponding value is equal to or greater than the stated
> > minimum, but where the value can vary depending on the file to which it
> > is applied.”
> 
> Thanks, that's the text I was looking for. Where is it written? I just
> used some stuff from the readlink man page.

In the norm: http://www.unix.org/online.html

> In some way the updated patch was not attached. The updated patch will
> follow soon...

Please also take into account Pino's remarks from debian-hurd, which
will actually keep the pointer non-static.

Samuel