[BusyBox] Undeclared
Vladimir N. Oleynik
dzo at simtreas.ru
Mon Aug 20 08:14:51 UTC 2001
Neal H Walfield wrote:
>
> > >I am trying to compile busybox 0.60.0 for an arm integrator board but the
> > >process only gets so far when i get the following error :
> >
> > POSIX system will have define of PATH_MAX, but some linux source or
> > tool chain support this. I experienced same as you on sh-linux.
>
> 100% untrue. POSIX does not sat that PATH_MAX is defined. What it does
> say is that if PATH_MAX is defined, it is the maximum path length. If
> it is not defined, there is no maximum. Interpretation: if PATH_MAX is
> undefined, you must check pathconf and use that. However, pathconf
> returns -1, there is also no file system limit. Therefore, you must use
> a dynamic allocation routine.
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/* Define PATH_MAX somehow. Requires sys/types.h.
Copyright (C) 1992, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
#ifndef _PATHMAX_H
# define _PATHMAX_H
# ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
# include <unistd.h>
# endif
/* Non-POSIX BSD systems might have gcc's limits.h, which doesn't define
PATH_MAX but might cause redefinition warnings when sys/param.h is
later included (as on MORE/BSD 4.3). */
# if defined(_POSIX_VERSION) || (defined(HAVE_LIMITS_H) && !defined(__GNUC__))
# include <limits.h>
# endif
# ifndef _POSIX_PATH_MAX
# define _POSIX_PATH_MAX 255
# endif
# if !defined(PATH_MAX) && defined(_PC_PATH_MAX)
# define PATH_MAX (pathconf ("/", _PC_PATH_MAX) < 1 ? 1024 \
: pathconf ("/", _PC_PATH_MAX))
# endif
/* Don't include sys/param.h if it already has been. */
# if defined(HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H) && !defined(PATH_MAX) && !defined(MAXPATHLEN)
# include <sys/param.h>
# endif
# if !defined(PATH_MAX) && defined(MAXPATHLEN)
# define PATH_MAX MAXPATHLEN
# endif
# ifndef PATH_MAX
# define PATH_MAX _POSIX_PATH_MAX
# endif
#endif /* _PATHMAX_H */
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