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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:00:25 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Use of asprintf() breaks build on systems where
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>

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)?

Dan,

Can you send in a patch to add the gnulib asprintf() with an appropriate 
configure test?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards
> Palle
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