[Box Backup] Fwd: building bbackup on fedora

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Adam,

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Adam Aviv wrote (in private email):

>> Maybe I am the only one in the fedora community who uses it.  Although 
>> someone posted to your mailing list back in June 2008 about rc11 on F9 
>> and didn't seem to get a reply or a fix.
>> 
>> http://lists.warhead.org.uk/pipermail/boxbackup/2008-June/004588.html 
>> (that file b.t.w. is missing stdio,stdlib, and string headers)
>> 
>> > Although I think it's fixed in a later version - Linux distributions 
>> > keep changing things around and it's hard to keep up sometimes.
>> 
>> Actually the 0.11rc2 is even worse for fedora building. There is even 
>> more files missing #includes and few more oddities such as these 
>> errors,
>> 
>> BackupClientFileAttributes.cpp:862: error: ?memcpy? is not a member of 
>> ?std?
>> 
>> For lines such as these:
>> 
>> Line 561: BackupClientFileAttributes.cpp
>> 
>> std::memcpy(buffer+xattrSize, &keyLength, sizeof(u_int16_t));
>> 
>> Not sure why building on Fedora should make a difference, but it does
>> build fine on Ubuntu. It may just be the c++ packaging and compiler
>> flavor. Maybe there is a dependency you are failing to check for that is
>> always available on Ubuntu but optional on Fedora.

Please could you try 0.11rc4 which I've just released? rc2 is nearly two 
years old and predates the widespread adoption of GCC 4.

Please note that the GPG signature is not up yet as my key has 
embarrassingly expired.

Cheers, Chris.
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