Re: address@hidden: Bug#119010: mailutils_20011103-1(unstable/ia64): fails to build from source]

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> I don't know if this is the right way to actually fix this...

Yes, that is corrected there is a discrepancy
on the declaration of timeout and its definition.

In
pop3d.h:  extern unsigned int timeout;
pop3d.c:  size_t timeout;

It was never discover probably because on our machines (32bits)
size_t == unsigned int.  So the compiler never complained.

Which does not seem to be the case on ia64:
size_t != unsigned int

So yes, go ahead.

As for:
" > annoying build system you use killed my attempt to do so; in any event"

Not sure I understand, we use std auto{conf,make} libtool.

> ----- Forwarded message from James Troup <address@hidden> -----
> 
> From: James Troup <address@hidden>
> Date: 10 Nov 2001 16:16:21 +0000
> 
> Package: mailutils
> Version: 20011103-1
> Severity: important
> 
> I would provide the (trivial) patch to fix this problem but the
> annoying build system you use killed my attempt to do so; in any event
> just change pop3d.c:25 to define timeout as an unsigned int rather
> than size_t to fix this problem and allow it to build for ia64 (and
> probably other 64 bit platforms).
> 
> | Automatic build of mailutils_20011103-1 on caballero by sbuild/ia64 1.159
> | Build started at 20011110-0427
> | 
> ******************************************************************************
> 
> [...]
> 
> | ** Using build dependencies supplied by package:
> | Build-Depends: libpam0g-dev, gawk, libreadline4-dev, guile1.4, dbs, 
> debhelper (> 3.0), libguile-dev, bison, flex
> 
> [...]
> 
> | gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I../lib -I../include    -g -O2 -c 
> `test -f pop3d.c || echo './'`pop3d.c
> | pop3d.c:25: conflicting types for `timeout'
> | pop3d.h:173: previous declaration of `timeout'
> | pop3d.c: In function `pop3d_daemon':
> | pop3d.c:439: warning: passing arg 3 of `accept' from incompatible pointer 
> type
> | make[3]: *** [pop3d.o] Error 1
> | make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/build/buildd/mailutils-20011103/build-tree/mailutils-20011103/pop3d'
> 
> A complete build log can be found at
> http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=ia64&pkg=mailutils&ver=20011103-1
> 
> -- 
> James
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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