Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:10:07 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, James Cook <james.cook@utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: freebsd-games: hack needs -fwritable-strings Message-ID: <478697BF.5020604@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <18310.35480.307764.676937@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20080110174126.GA45584@glider> <18310.35480.307764.676937@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert Huff wrote: > James Cook writes: > >> This seems to be caused by line 170 of hack.u_init.c, which >> attempts to modify a string constant. >> >> SOLUTION: >> Add -fwritable-strings to CFLAGS in hack's Makefile. (There's >> already a patch that changes that line of the Makefile, so this >> is easy to change.) > > Has something changed in the definition of correctly written > code while I was away at the funny farm? Why is the solution not > "Don't modify a costant."? This code has been largely untouched since the 1980s :) Kris
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