Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Linker error?

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I submitted a patch partially included below, to allow compilation on a 
system where configure didn't find strerror.
Apparently the patch worked, but as it stands its probably not suitable
for inclusion to CVS, because it doesn't work with Imakefile and
Makefile.noimake.  Well, that is, it doesn't use the real strerror,
in those cases because they don't define HAVE_STRERROR (naturally).  

Any suggestions about getting around this?  I suppose either ch
anging the tests in mystrerror to try and see if we're using configure, 
or have the non-configure makefiles (customizably) define HAVE_STRERROR 
themselves, or ... ?

-- David

> --_----------=_91008841620600
> Content-Disposition: inline; filename="mystrerror.diff"

> diff -u -r --exclude-from exclude freeciv-cvs/common/shared.c 
> freeciv-mod/common/shared.c
> --- freeciv-cvs/common/shared.c       Thu Oct 29 20:22:12 1998
> +++ freeciv-mod/common/shared.c       Tue Nov  3 21:11:46 1998
> @@ -253,6 +253,20 @@
>     return mystrcasecmp(*((char **)first), *((char **)second));
>  }
>  
> +/***************************************************************
> +...
> +***************************************************************/
> +char *mystrerror(int errnum)
> +{
> +#ifdef HAVE_STRERROR
> +  return strerror(errnum);
> +#else
> +  static char buf[64];
> +  sprintf(buf, "error %d (compiled without strerror())", errnum);
> +  return buf;
> +#endif
> +}
> +
>  
>  /*************************************************************************
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