Bug 427647

Summary: implicit definition of strptime because of missing define
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo <carenas>
Component: cronologAssignee: jafo-redhat
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: el5CC: ktdreyer
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define _GNU_SOURCE in cronoutils.c to satisfy glibc2 compatibility feature to define strptime none

Description Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo 2008-01-06 06:37:35 UTC 
Description of problem:
strptime is only defined if #define __USE_XOPEN as can be seen in <time.h>
as per the documentation, since glibc2 this function is only available if
_GNU_SOURCE or _XOPEN_SOURCE had been defined.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. download source rpm
2. rebuild in a 64bit architecture (x86_64 or ppc)
3.
  
Actual results:
cronoutils.c: In function 'parse_time':
cronoutils.c:673: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size

Expected results:
no messages

Additional info:
more details (linked to ia64) reported in debian in the linked bug (URL) as well
as in the following gentoo bug :

  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204501
Comment 1 Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo 2008-01-06 06:37:36 UTC 
Created attachment 290901 [details]
define _GNU_SOURCE in cronoutils.c to satisfy glibc2 compatibility feature to define
strptime
Comment 2 Ken Dreyer 2017-01-08 05:48:56 UTC 
cronolog.org is no more.

You might want to submit these patches to the new GitHub upstream repo: https://github.com/fordmason/cronolog

FYI EPEL 5 is going EOL soon: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PFGUA4UNOCICASB6W7JLNBL7EJ6L4J2X/
Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2017-04-06 10:28:43 UTC 
Fedora EPEL 5 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2017-03-31. Fedora EPEL 5
is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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