strdup and pre-R5

[Matthew McLean]

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Franz Sirl wrote:

> 
> 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

Or, have configure or equivalent check the system headers for these decls.

-matt


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