strdup and pre-R5

[Franz Sirl]

At 04:29 02.03.99 , Batmensch wrote:

>I'm having a problem building OpenLdap 1.2 on a pre-R5 installation; the error
>seems to be with strdup(); the make complains :
>
>"In file included from args.c:22:
>../../include/ac/string.h:49 macro `strdup' using without args"
>
>I've been able to build it without error on both LinuxPPC 4 and Linux X86.
>Also the build of 1.0.2 that is included with the R5 distribution seems to 
>work
>properly.
>
>Anything i can do about this?

This is a common problem with glibc-2.1, the str... functions are macros 
and so some silly sources break on "extern str...()" declarations.

Possible solutions:
- correct source
- compile with -D__NO_STRING_INLINES
- compile with -Os

Franz.


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