Re: Patch to get iw building on Fedora 8

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 09/21/2010 02:34 PM, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 02:09:57PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> On 09/21/2010 12:49 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> Ben Greear<greearb-my8/4N5VtI7c+919tysfdA@public.gmane.org>   writes:
>>>
>>>> I need this in order to get iw to build on Fedora 8.
>>>>
> ...
>>>> +#define  __USE_ISOC99
>>>
>>> This is wrong.  You must never define internal glibc macros.
>>
>> How about this then?
> ...
>> -                       tmpf = strtof(argv[i],&end);
>> +                       tmpf = strtod(argv[i],&end);
> ...
>> Seems you don't have to do anything clever to get strtod to work,
>> and I assume it should cast just fine.
>
> I think to use C99 features like strtof() you need to either
> add -std=c99 to CFLAGS, or #define _ISOC99_SOURCE
> (see /usr/include/features.h).

It seems using strtod would be simpler all around, and might work on
more compilers and even more ancient systems.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> HTH,
> Johannes


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