Subj : Re: SM on Fedora Core2 on AMD64
To   : Louis Paul Santillan
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Thu Jul 01 2004 04:52 pm

Louis Paul Santillan wrote:
> Done.  Bug #249478.  A transcript of a compilation attempt is at
> <https://truthaddict.org/temp/typescript.txt>

Oh, I meant file a bug on Fedore Core 2 also, for not shipping 
<stdarg.h>.  If indeed FC2 does not provide that standard C header.

/be

> 
> Louis
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Brendan Eich wrote:
> 
> 
>>Louis Paul Santillan wrote:
>>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>In the config/Linux_All.mk macro near the bottom where HAVE_VA_COPY is
>>>defined,  Fedora Core2 (at least for the AMD64) does not have a VA_COPY
>>>macro (or even a stdarg.h header in /usr/include).  Switching the OS_FLAGS
>>>definition to OS_FLAGS += HAVE_VA_LIST_AS_ARRAY solve the compilation
>>>issue.  However, snooping around my system, I didn't seem to find anything
>>>that would allow me to detect if FC2 on an AMD is being used.  I'll keep
>>>looking but if someone has a suggestion that is portable, let me know.
>>
>>File a bug on FC2 -- Standard C requires <stdarg.h>, as far as I know,
>>or ever knew (haven't read the ISO specs in forever, but I lived through
>>the hell of standardization at SGI, porting piles of Unix code from
>><varargs.h> to <stdarg.h>).
>>
>>/be
>>
> 
>

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