Bug 282041 – app-admin/eselect-python fails to build on systems without strndup

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Fabian Groffen 2009-08-19 19:03:21 UTC]

patch follows

[Comment 1 Fabian Groffen 2009-08-19 19:04:55 UTC]

relevant exerpt from prefix patch:

@@ -31,7 +31,11 @@
    const char* last_slash = strrchr(exe, '/');
    if (last_slash)
    {
-       return strndup(exe, last_slash - exe);
+       size_t len = last_slash - exe;
+       char *ret = malloc(sizeof(char) * (len + 1));
+       memcpy(ret, exe, len);
+       ret[len] = '\0';
+       return(ret);
    }
    const char* PATH = getenv("PATH");
    if (! PATH)

[Comment 2 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2009-08-19 19:09:46 UTC]

Fixed in r205.