Hello Jeff, (Writing this from the hurd-console. Does utf-8 work? ã õ á à ê)
On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 03:31:52PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 2:33 PM João Pedro Malhado <phlogis...@sapo.pt> wrote: > > > > The size of the filepaths are now allocated dynamically using asprintf() > > type of functions and realpath(). > > ... > > I don't know if upstream would accept such a patch as they need to worry > > about > > platforms like RISC OS and AmigaOS, and I don't know if this would work > > there. > > It might be ok for Debian though. If there are no objections/corrections I > > could > > try upstream first. > > You may be able to use Gnulib for the cross-platform support of > asprintf and realpath. Gnulib will handle the implementation details > for you. Gnulib also does a good job of listing problem platforms. Thank you for the suggestion, I did not know about Gnulib. I think it might be a good idea in this case. I'll suggest it to upstream and see if they want to go that way. Regards, João
