tags 557632 + patch
forwarded 557632 bug-autoc...@gnu.org
thanks
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:27:43PM +0100, Michal Čihař wrote:
> Package: autoconf
> Version: 2.65-1
> Severity: serious
> File: /usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/functions.m4
> the mmap test currently present in autoconf fails to compile:
>
> conftest.cpp:154: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to
> 'char*'
> conftest.cpp:157: error: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'char*'
This is a regression introduced recently upstream in commit 19629fa9.
Attached is a trivial patch.
>From 75c25892e136b43862fc7028c12d50f592a3cf41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yavor Doganov <ya...@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:18:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix AC_FUNC_MMAP regression from 2009-11-09.
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* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): Add a cast to char *
to make the test work for C++ compilers.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Michal Čihař.
---
ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++
THANKS | 1 +
lib/autoconf/functions.m4 | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index aeacaa4..5b05ed3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2009-11-24 Yavor Doganov <ya...@gnu.org> (tiny change)
+
+ Fix AC_FUNC_MMAP regression from 2009-11-09.
+ * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MMAP): Add a cast to char *
+ to make the test work for C++ compilers.
+ * THANKS: Update.
+ Reported by Michal Čihař.
+
2009-11-22 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
Fix failure of test 35 when the user has a .autom4te.cfg file.
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index b288163..d93ed4c 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ Michael Jenning ?
Michael Matz m...@kde.org
Michael Schoene m...@mlc.de
Michael Wardle ?
+Michal Čihař ni...@debian.org
Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org
Mike Hopkirk h...@sco.com
Mike Stump m...@wrs.com
diff --git a/lib/autoconf/functions.m4 b/lib/autoconf/functions.m4
index 6b6e7fc..9a79479 100644
--- a/lib/autoconf/functions.m4
+++ b/lib/autoconf/functions.m4
@@ -1285,7 +1285,8 @@ main ()
data2 = "";
if (write (fd2, data2, 1) != 1)
return 5;
- data2 = mmap (0, pagesize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd2, 0L);
+ data2 = (char *) mmap (0, pagesize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
+ fd2, 0L);
if (data2 == MAP_FAILED)
return 6;
for (i = 0; i < pagesize; ++i)
--
1.6.5
