Re: [BUGS] PostgreSQL 8.4.3: configure script on Debian Lenny with libbsd-dev and libbsd0 installed does not detect strlcpy and strlcat functions

2010-04-25 Thread Tom Lane
Holger Rauch writes: > So, my question is: Why does the configure script not include these > checks on Linux systems (for the bsd/string.h file and libbsd)? Well, there are several reasons: 1. I don't think we really care that much --- the src/port/ implementations of those functions work fine,

[BUGS] PostgreSQL 8.4.3: configure script on Debian Lenny with libbsd-dev and libbsd0 installed does not detect strlcpy and strlcat functions

2010-04-25 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi to everybody, on a Debian Lenny system I got the error mentioned above, i. e. configure reported "no" for both functions, even though the two BSD compatibility packages mentioned in the subject are installed. Both functions are declared in /usr/include/bsd/string.h When including that header