Re: daemon.c fails to build on Darwin

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sep 28, 2006, 16:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20060928160652.GC2947@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <86ejtw3sbv.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

"Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:

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> 
> If this is obvious, can someone fix it?  If not, I'll try to sort it out later
> tonight.
> 
>     gcc -o daemon.o -c -g -O2 -Wall -I/sw/include -I/opt/local/include -DSHA1_HEADER='<openssl/sha.h>' -DNO_STRLCPY daemon.c
>     daemon.c: In function 'fill_in_extra_table_entries':
>     daemon.c:460: error: 'HOST_NAME_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
>     daemon.c:460: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>     daemon.c:460: error: for each function it appears in.)
>     daemon.c:460: warning: unused variable 'addrbuf'
>     make: *** [daemon.o] Error 1
> 
> This is with 2d5b459107cf07bbb307cfb196c2007c497a6dd2.

According to pickaxe it was dd4676299dde0a4c6f8a471e6353170f86a78c8a.

Looks like HOST_NAME_MAX isn't defined on Darwin. Looking at how daemon.c is using it this just needs to be defined to a suitable length if its not already defined. Sort of like PATH_MAX on some other systems...

-- 
Shawn.