Re: [Qemu-devel] Use of asprintf() breaks build on systems where asprintf() is not available

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 05:00:25PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Palle Lyckegaard wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >A few source-files, e.g. vnc.c, makes use of the (non-portable?) 
> >asprintf() function, which is not available in e.g. Solaris 10 and 
> >certain builds of OpenSolaris.
> >
> >What would be the proper "qemu" way of solving this problem? Creating 
> >a library with the functions not avilable on the host system or 
> >replacing the non-portable use(s) of the function(s) with proper 
> >portable function(s)?
> 
> Can you send in a patch to add the gnulib asprintf() with an appropriate 
> configure test?

I think it is just easier to remove the use of asprinf() from vnc.c It is
only used once and not really all that hard to remove.

Daniel
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