Re: [bug-patch] patch-2.6: problem report

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Saturday 21 November 2009 19:28:44 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 19 November 2009 20:30:05 Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> > (1) There are references to strndup() and strnlen(), which are
> >     nonstandard functions
> 
> incorrect -- these are both in posix now

Well, gnulib provides replacements for systems which don't have them. I've 
added them now (commit 9336e93).

> >     and should have fallback implementations if
> >     they are not available in -lc
> 
> there already is a fallback implementation of strndup.  you'll probably have 
> to post logs that show why it wasnt used.

I have one report of this problem already.

> > (3) The following files require <stdbool.h>:
> > 
> >     ./gl/lib/argmatch.c

There was a bug in the code which substitutes stdbool.h, reported by Yasutaka 
SHINDOH. This should be fixed in commit 3bea3d5.

Does the latest snapshot at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/patch/ work?

Thanks,
Andreas