Re: Porting Debian Packages

[Tanguy LE CARROUR]

Hi guys!

Some more question on "Porting Package", but this time with a specific example...

I picked "auto-apt" (0.3.22) and even if some Hurd patch had been applied the code still failed to compile because of one undeclared PATH_MAX.

1) How comes the Hurd patch (part of the last debian/changelog entry) doesn't fix this one, leaving a FTBFS package?!

2) When is is acceptable to solve a PATH_MAX problem like it was done in this package? 

+#ifndef PATH_MAX

+#define PATH_MAX 10000 /* Hurd does not define PATH_MAX in limits.h */

+#endif

Cheers,

Tanguy