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

[Martin Schröder]

2010/7/28 Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>:
> 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.

Peter,
I don't know - I don't do Solaris. I only provided the libopenbsd. :-)

I wanted to provide a heads-up to check the current Solaris 10x86 binaries.

Best
   Martin