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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    SMART_PUTENV-test (was: Re: KDE_1_1_BRANCH: Franz Sir'l's kvt bugfix
From:       Peter Putzer <pputzer () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date:       1999-08-02 8:14:15
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On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Cristian Tibirna wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Duncan Haldane wrote:
> 
> > *** Can I add it to the CVS now ? (for the kde-1.1.2 release ?) *****
> > (Does Franz + me make the required two-person stamp of approval ?), 
> > I have cvs acces and will add it if nobody objects .....
> 
> OK. If you're still unsure, you can post the patch here (if not too big)
> or send it to me for third review. If you're certain all's OK, just apply
> it.
> 
> > (1) kdvi also went bad on glibc-2.1; it seems that its autoconf test in the
> > kpathsea directory  incorrectly  says that glibc-2.1.1 putenv() does not use malloc().
> > Peter Putzer has supplied me a patch that just overides the autoconf test, and forces
> > the definition of SMART_PUTENV on glibc >= 2.1 systems.    (kdvi functions
> > perfectly again on RedHat 6.0
> > if kpathsea/xputenv.c is compiled with SMART_PUTENV defined.)
> 
> Well, make Coolo aware of this. Overriding the test isn't that OK. Maybe
> Coolo will know what's wrong with autoconf's test for putenv() related to
> glibc-2.1 (isn't this incompatibility between glibc-2.1 and the previous
> insanely lame?)

Actually the test seems to be broken, since in the comments it says
something like "this probably will only work on *BSD, if you've got
another system with 'SMART_PUTENV', set the variable by hand or write your
own autoconf-test"

bye,
Peter

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