Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:32:53 +0100 From: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: <utmp.h> gone. All welcome <utmpx.h>. Message-ID: <4B5179B5.9020902@gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <20100113194254.GR64905@hoeg.nl> References: <20100113194254.GR64905@hoeg.nl>
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On 13.01.2010 20:42 (UTC+1), Ed Schouten wrote: > [..snip..] > I've noticed there is some breakage in ports, but it shouldn't be too > serious. I've seen cases where an application includes<utmp.h>, even > though it doesn't use anything provided by that header. In other cases > they used fields like UT_NAMESIZE to derive the maximum user name length > supported by the system, which is clearly not what this definition was > intended for. I've incremented __FreeBSD_version to 900007 to identify > the import of utmpx. In case a certain port breaks badly, let me know > and I'm willing to take a look at it. > > Be sure to give it a try and report any issues. Thanks! > After updating my system i tried to rebuild Xorg ports. All went fine until it has to compile x11/sessreg. It seems that the configure script does not find struct 'utmpx.ut_syslen' and so the build process falls back to utmp? Could you please take a look if this is an issue of the new interface. This is on 9.0-CURRENT (amd64). Thanks in advance, Rainer
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