Re: HEADS UP: <utmp.h> gone. All welcome <utmpx.h> [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

    0n Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 08:42:54PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: 

    >I've noticed there is some breakage in ports, but it shouldn't be too
    >serious. I've seen cases where an application includes <utmp.h>, even
    >though it doesn't use anything provided by that header. In other cases
    >they used fields like UT_NAMESIZE to derive the maximum user name length
    >supported by the system, which is clearly not what this definition was
    >intended for. I've incremented __FreeBSD_version to 900007 to identify
    >the import of utmpx. In case a certain port breaks badly, let me know
    >and I'm willing to take a look at it.
    >
    >Be sure to give it a try and report any issues. Thanks!

Great stuff ed! Thanks! I thought I would test this with my terminal of choice
(x11/rxvt-unicode) and found some breakage (Cc'ing $MAINTAINER).

e.g.

(FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r202270: Thu Jan 14 11:20:04 WST 2010)

   ===>  Building for rxvt-unicode-9.07
   c++ -I.. -I. -I. -I./../libev -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/local/include
   -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -O2 -pipe
   -fno-strict-aliasing -w -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/libAfterImage
   -I/usr/local/include -c rxvt.C
   c++ -I.. -I. -I. -I./../libev -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/local/include
   -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -O2 -pipe
   -fno-strict-aliasing -w -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/libAfterImage
   -I/usr/local/include -c background.C
   c++ -I.. -I. -I. -I./../libev -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/local/include
   -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -O2 -pipe
   -fno-strict-aliasing -w -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/libAfterImage
   -I/usr/local/include -c command.C
   c++ -I.. -I. -I. -I./../libev -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/local/include
   -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -O2 -pipe
   -fno-strict-aliasing -w -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/libAfterImage
   -I/usr/local/include -c rxvtfont.C
   c++ -I.. -I. -I. -I./../libev -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/local/include
   -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -O2 -pipe
   -fno-strict-aliasing -w -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/libAfterImage
   -I/usr/local/include -c init.C
   c++ -I.. -I. -I. -I./../libev -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/local/include
   -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -O2 -pipe
   -fno-strict-aliasing -w -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/libAfterImage
   -I/usr/local/include -c logging.C
   In file included from logging.C:40:
   ptytty.h:36:4: error: #error cannot build with utmp support - no utmp or utmpx
   struct found
   *** Error code 1
   
   Stop in /usr/ports/x11/rxvt-unicode/work/rxvt-unicode-9.07/src.
   *** Error code 1
   
   Stop in /usr/ports/x11/rxvt-unicode/work/rxvt-unicode-9.07.
   *** Error code 1
   
   Stop in /usr/ports/x11/rxvt-unicode.
   *** Error code 1
   
   Stop in /usr/ports/x11/rxvt-unicode.
   *** Error code 1
   
   Stop in /usr/ports/x11/rxvt-unicode.


  -Alex

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