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

[Anthony Liguori]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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.
>   

That would be good too.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Daniel
>