Re: (ITS#8202) openldap assumes printf has %z

[hyc@symas.com]

iand@ekit-inc.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Ian Donaldson
> Version: 2.4.41
> OS: Solaris 9
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (60.241.85.68)
>
>
> Built 2.4.41 on Solaris 9; ran 'make check' which failed to start slapd with
> the following errors:

Thanks for the report. Not sure that it's worth our taking any action though. 
The last release of Solaris 9 was 10 years ago, and it has been end-of-life'd 
by Oracle.

> 55ab70f0 config_build_entry: "olcDatabase={-1}frontend"
> 55ab70f0 config_build_entry: "olcDatabase={0}config"
> 55ab70f0 config_build_entry: "olcDatabase={1}bdb"
> 55ab70f0 config_build_attrs: error 21 on olcDbCacheSize value #0
> 55ab70f0 config_build_entry: build "zu" failed: ""
>
> Eventually found this to be due to the assumption that %z format
> works in printf; this is not the case on Solaris 9.   (Solaris 10 has %z)
>
> Found the following code that makes this assumption (there may be others):
>
> ./libraries/liblmdb/mdb_load.c
> ./libraries/liblmdb/mdb_dump.c
> ./libraries/liblmdb/mdb_stat.c
> ./libraries/liblmdb/mdb.c
> ./servers/slapd/overlays/constraint.c
> ./servers/slapd/config.c
>
> My workaround was to use %l instead of %z which works for me; may not
> be 100% fix though.
>
> See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2524611/how-to-print-size-t-variable-portably
>
>
> I previously built 2.4.33 which has some %z'isms too but not in places
> that cause 'make check' to fail.
>
>


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