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GDL (GNU Data Language) patch for Debian Lenny

author: www-data

The current version of GDL doesn't compile on Debian Lenny. It bails out with:

...
hdf_fun.cpp: In function 'BaseGDL* lib::hdf_sd_dimgetid_fun(EnvT*)':
hdf_fun.cpp:398: error: invalid conversion from 'DLong*' to 'int32*'
hdf_fun.cpp:398: error:   initializing argument 3 of 'intn SDgetinfo(int32,
char*, int32*, int32*, int32*, int32*)'
make[3]: *** [gdl-hdf_fun.o] Error 1

Apparently it's because of a missing cast or something. Here's a fix. I thought I'd share it, because I looked all over the web for a fix, but google only spit out one link, which was basically leading to a Debian package building fail-log. Enjoy! (Of course, I couldn't be bothered to try and find out the sizes of DLong and int32, so my fix is maybe a little clumsy, but has the best chances of working even if there's a difference between the two ;-)

2009-06-26 14:58 | www-datarootshell.ro | [/tech-sci/comp] | permanent link