[Pkg-vsquare-devel] Bug#490389: Bug#490389: Patch to fix FTBFS on amd64

[Ludovico Gardenghi]

severity 490389 minor
retitle 490389 Patch to fix FTBFS on amd64 and glibc 2.8
tags 490389 - moreinfo unreproducible
tags 490389 + fixed-upstream upstream
thanks

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:12:32AM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote:

> There is no build log on Debian on AMD64, this patch was required to
> get it building on Ubuntu where it FTBFS on all architectures aside
> from i686.  I should have made this more clear in my email.

There is no log on Debian because the amd64 binary has been uploaded by
the mantainer, but it seems to compile fine also on this architecture.

As far as Debian is concerned, there is no FTBFS error so I'm lowering
the severity.

If I understand correctly (next time, please give us some more details,
like the buildd output -- not just a patch!) the problem of a missing
stdlib.h is that NULL won't get defined. Somehow, it appears to be
defined nevertheless with glibc 2.7: we #include sys/types.h that
#includes stddef.h that defines NULL. You're using glibc 2.8 and
things are probably different.

Anyway, since it's a Good Thing to include stdlib.h if you want to use
NULL, I applied the patch to the upstream SVN, so the next upstream
release will be fixed.

If I'm missing something, please tell me.

Ludovico
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