Re: [Linphone-developers] linphone 3.4.3 build error

[Gerhard Stengel]

Hi,

I don't think these lines don anything useful on Linux. I put them between an 
#ifdef WIN32 around and it can be compiled.

regards

Gerhard

Am Samstag, 2. April 2011, 06:13:25 schrieb Gerhard Stengel:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a posting from the linphone-users mailing list. I've the same build 
> problem on my machine (openSUSE 11.4, 64 
> bit) and now want to adress this on the developers list.
> 
> The difference to version 3.4.2 is that the offending lines in main.c look 
> like this on 3.4.2
> #ifdef WIN32
>       if (workingdir!=NULL)
>               _chdir(workingdir);
> #endif
> which means on Linux the compiler never sees these lines.
> 
> In  version 3.4.3 there's no #ifdef WIN32, and it's just
>       if (workingdir!=NULL)
>               chdir(workingdir); //without a preceding underscore!
> however there's a define 
> #ifdef WIN32
> #define chdir _chdir
> #endif
> 
> which makes it to be the same on WIN32, but on Linux these lines are new 
> compared to previously.
> My naive idea was to patch it to something like
>    (void)chdir(workingdir);
> but that doesn't make the compiler happy about the unused return value...
> 
> How can this be fixed? Maybe the whole statement is dispensible on Linux, it 
> wasn't there on 3.4.2.
> 
> best regards