Dear SWISHers:

I grabbed a copy of vsnprintf.c from the mailman2.0.8 distirbution, compiled
by hand, and seem to have solved the problem.  So, at this point, I merely
point out that the distribution seems to be missing a file.

-- Tom

------------------------------------------------------
Thomas M. Parris
Research Scientist & Executive Director, Boston Office
ISCIENCES, LLC
685 Centre Street, Suite 207
Jamaica Plain, MA  02130
voice: 617.524.8041          http://www.isciences.com/
fax:   509.463.4679          http://www.terraviva.net/
email: parris@isciences.com
------------------------------------------------------


> -----Original Message-----
> From: swish-e@sunsite.berkeley.edu
> [mailto:swish-e@sunsite.berkeley.edu]On Behalf Of Thomas M. Parris
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 4:27 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [SWISH-E] vsnprintf on Solaris 2.5
>
>
> Dear SWISHers:
>
> It a long story, but I'm trying to build
> swish-e-2.1-dev-25-2002-08-05.tar.gz on Solaris 2.5.  The
> ./configure script
> checks to see if it can find vsnprintf (and reports it
> cannot), but then I
> get build errors.  At first, I thought this was an error in
> the autoconf
> generation of the Makefile, and I simply removed vsnprintf.o from the
> UTIL_OBJS tatget.  But, it appears that parser.c still wants
> it, because now
> I get the error at link time:
>
> gcc -o
> swish-e -Wall -pedantic -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -DSWISH_VERSION=\"2.1-dev-25\" -Iexp
> at/xmltok -Iexpat/xmlparse -I/usr/local/include/l
> ibxml2  -g -O2  swish.o keychar_out.o
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>    libswish-e.a -lm -lm  -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib
> -lxml2 -lz -licon
> v -lm -lsocket -lnsl -lz
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> vsnprintf                           libswish-e.a(error.o)
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to swish-e
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> I'm thinking you must have a vsnprintf.c in the source tree
> somewhere, but
> that it is not getting pulled as  part of the daily snpashot.
>  Can you tell
> me how to get it?
>
>
> OS: Solaris 2.5 (you'll probably tell me its about time to
> ubgrade, and it
> is.  We're builsing a 2.8 machine as we speak, but I still
> need to get this
> going on 2.5).
>
> gcc: gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)
>
>
> FYI ... I've included some of the other compiler warnings.
>
> -- Tom
>
>
> 	# warnings from btree
> 	-O2 -c -o btree.o btree.c
> 	In file included from btree.c:104:
> 	btree.h:19: warning: ANSI C forbids zero-size array `data'
> 	btree.c: In function `BTREE_Walk':
> 	btree.c:636: warning: pointer targets in passing arg 6 of
> `BTREE_GetKeyFromPage' differ in signedness
> 	btree.c: In function `BTREE_Search':
> 	btree.c:901: warning: pointer targets in passing arg 6 of
> `BTREE_GetKeyFromPage' differ in signedness
> 	btree.c:908: warning: pointer targets in passing arg 6 of
> `BTREE_GetKeyFromPage' differ in signedness
>
> 	# warnings from array.c
> 	-O2 -c -o array.o array.c
> 	In file included from array.c:117:
> 	array.h:14: warning: ANSI C forbids zero-size array `data'
>
> 	# warnings from file.c
> 	-O2 -c -o file.o file.c
> 	file.c: In function `create_tempfile':
> 	file.c:509: warning: implicit declaration of function `mkstemp'
>
> 	# problem with missing vsnprintf.o
> 	-O2 -c -o parser.o parser.c
> 	parser.c: In function `error':
> 	parser.c:1634: warning: implicit declaration of
> function `vsnprintf'
>
> 	# more problems with vsnprintf.o
> 	ar cr libswish-e.a fs.o http.o httpserver.o extprog.o
> methods.o html.o
> txt.o xml.o expat/xmltok/xmltok.o 	expat/xmltok/xmlrole.o
> expat/xmlparse/xmlparse.o entities.o parser.o index.o merge.o
> stemmer.o
> soundex.o 	filter.o parse_conffile.o swregex.o swish2.o search.o
> 	swish_words.o proplimit.o search_alt.o result_output.o
> rank.o hash.o
> compress.o db.o db_native.o 	ramdisk.o btree.o array.o check.o file.o
> error.o list.o mem.o string.o docprop.o metanames.o
> result_sort.o dump.o
> swish_qsort.o  date_time.o no_better_place_module.o
> 	vsnprintf.o
> 	ar: vsnprintf.o: No such file or directory
>
> 	# SOLUTION: edited Makefile and removed vsnprintf.o
> from UTIL_OBJS target
> 	# should be safe since the ./configure script indicates
> a test to see if os
> libs have vsnprintf
> 	# probably just an error in the Makefile generation.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Thomas M. Parris
> Research Scientist & Executive Director, Boston Office
> ISCIENCES, LLC
> 685 Centre Street, Suite 207
> Jamaica Plain, MA  02130
> voice: 617.524.8041          http://www.isciences.com/
> fax:   509.463.4679          http://www.terraviva.net/
> email: parris@isciences.com
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>