Re: Compiling lftp on Solaris with Sun Studio

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:25:45AM +0200, Yann Rouillard wrote:
> I maintain the lftp package for the blastwave project ( 
> http://www.blastwave.org/ ) and I had some issues with lftp 3.5.4 under 
> Solaris with Sun CC.
> 
> I attached the patchs I applied to be able to solve the problems:

Thanks for the patch, but I chose another solution, see below.

> - I had a problem with the bool type, there seems to be an error in the
> stdbool_.h file when the compiler does support bool, moreover the 
> included stdbool.h is not in the default include path so it triggers an 
> error on Solaris 5.8 where this file doesn't exist.

I changed configure to link stdbool_.h to include directory when system one
is missing.

> - I had a segfault when I did a  'ls' with the sftp protocol, it turns 
> out the MakeRef macro didn't work as expected
> Makeref(session->MakeDirList(v)) was transformed by CC in
> (_MakeRef((session->MakeDirList(v))),(session->MakeDirList(v))) which 
> created 2 SFtpDirList instead of one, both sharing the same session value.

I decided to drop the macros and leave the templates. Screw the broken compilers.

I have also put out lftp-3.5.5rc1 to ftp://ftp.yar.ru/lftp/devel/. Please try.

-- 
   Alexander..