From b910d991f0cace9bf6f31ca6430836a99c6d4456 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: joey Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:20:25 +0000 Subject: respond to one item and make another into a bug report --- doc/bugs/build_in_opensolaris.mdwn | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/bugs/build_in_opensolaris.mdwn (limited to 'doc/bugs/build_in_opensolaris.mdwn') diff --git a/doc/bugs/build_in_opensolaris.mdwn b/doc/bugs/build_in_opensolaris.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4e5b92d2d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/build_in_opensolaris.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +I've learned I'm not yet clever enough to get IkiWiki to build in OpenSolaris (as running on a [Joyent Accelerator][ja]). Anyone figured this out already? + +I think problem lies mostly, if not entirely, in getting ikiwiki.cgi.c to compile in an OpenSolaris context (this is ikiwiki-2.2): + +> $ ikiwiki --setup ~/etc/ikiwiki/ikiwiki-edit.setup +> [...] +> Error: failed to compile /home/username/domains/domain.tld/cgi-bin/ikiwiki.cgi.c at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/IkiWiki.pm line 104. +BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 3) line 145. + +More specifically, + +> $ /usr/sfw/bin/gcc ikiwiki.cgi.c +> Undefined first referenced +> symbol in file +> asprintf /var/tmp//cczPaG7R.o +> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to a.out +> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status + +[ja]: + +Thanks, Joey et al., for a really cool tool. + +--Mike + +> Looks like the ikiwiki wrapper uses asprintf. glibc has that, and I think some other libc implementations have that, but apparently the Solaris libc does not. The same problem will come up on other platforms that don't use glibc. The ikiwiki wrapper needs to either avoid asprintf or use a portable asprintf implementation from somewhere like gnulib. --[[JoshTriplett]] + +>> I used asprintf because it was easy, and safe. That is a good reason for +>> C libraries to support asprintf, IMHO. Note that both linux and *BSD +>> support asprintf. +>> +>> Of the possible patches to make this more portable, I'd generally prefer +>> one that uses portable functions (safely), rather than one that includes +>> an asprintf implementation in ikiwiki. --[[Joey]] -- cgit v1.2.3