On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 5:33 PM Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/23/19 12:48 AM, Michael Joost wrote:
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> > regarding your recent patch in xorg/libXfont2 (strlcat/strlcpy fallbacks) I 
> > ran into a problem on Linux while having libbsd installed. The configure 
> > correctly detects libbsd and those functions, however, the macro 
> > HAVE_LIBBSD is never defined in this process. The compile then fails with 
> > "implicit declaration" error, as the libbsd includes are not loaded from 
> > replace.h. When defining this macro manually, everything is fine.
> > I think HAVE_LIBBSD should be defined by configure when it has found -lbsd.
>
> Hmm, I see what you mean, but I've not heard of problems from any other Linux
> users/distro builders, so perhaps something else is masking it for them?
>
> I'm cc'ing the list to see if those who work on Linux see the problem, or
> want to provide a patch that they can test more easily than I can.

Hi,

I don't know what needs to be done here, but just wanted to say that I
experienced strlcat, strlcpy problems when compiling libXfont master
branch on Arch as well.

I can not build it from commit 2178c7445a on.

Cheers
Roman

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