Re: OpenDKIM v2.7.2 released

From: Scott Kitterman <ietf-dkim_at_kitterman.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:31:07 -0500

On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 09:05:47 PM Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 04:13:59 PM Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 08:29:42 PM Eray Aslan wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > > These problems are only for Linux obviously. BSDs are good.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Some subset of Linux distros. Debian and it's derivatives have an
> > external
> > implementation available. It should be preferred when it is. Whatever
> > the
> > solution, please don't assume all Linux are the same on this.
>
> I do have to offer a correction to what I said before. It turns out
> Debian's libbsd doesn't provide the header file, it does provide both
> strlcpy and strlcat. I looked again and I'm getting the same implicit
> declaration warnings.
>
> So provides the function, but not the header is a definite possibility. I'm
> going to ask the maintainers about providing the header.
>
> Sorry for any confusion.

I did hear back from the Debian BSD maintainers:

> Well strl.h is not a “standard” BSD header, on BSDs those functions are
> declared in <string.h>, when using libbsd it's either in <string.h>
> when using the overlay (pkg-config --cflags libbsd-overlay), or in
> <bsd/string.h>.

So i guess if you're looking for a header, looking for string.h in addition to
strl.h would make sense.

Scott K
Received on Fri Nov 23 2012 - 17:31:20 PST