[tlbuild] Fwd: followup: Solaris asprintf symbol not found

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Martin Schröder wrote:

> Mark complains that the binaries for Solaris 10x86 were broken in TL09.
> I have no access to Solaris and can't test this...
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mark Senn <mark at purdue.edu>
> Date: 2010/7/27
> Subject: followup: Solaris asprintf symbol not found
> To: martin at oneiros.de
> Cc: cottrell at wfu.edu
>
>
>> 2010/7/17 Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu.edu>:
>>> In an ideal world there would be a configure-time check for the
>>> presence of asprintf. Also in an ideal world, Solaris would
>>> support asprintf by now. See
>>>
>>> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;jsessionid=db8b2f61f34adf779bd06c8c4d1d?bug_id=4508459

Hi Martin,

libs/obsdcompat/configure does test for the presence of asprintf(), if
necessary including this function into libopenbsd-compat.a, and
texk/web2c/Makefile then includes libopenbsd-compat.a into pdftex.

Could it be that some (fixed) versions of the Solaris libc do contain
asprintf and others do not?  If so, building pdftex on a system without
asprintf should solve this problem.

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>