[netflow-tools] "Fatal error - exiting immediately"

[Tony and Robyn Lewis]

Damien Miller wrote:

>
> Try this, it shouldn't matter unless your compiler is buggy.

me at mymachine:~/softflowd-0.9.7$ patch -p0 <../patchfile2
patching file softflowd.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1752 (offset -3 lines).
me at mymachine:~/softflowd-0.9.7$ make
gcc -g -O2 -DFLOW_SPLAY          -DEXPIRY_RB             -I.   -c -o 
softflowd.o softflowd.c
softflowd.c: In function 'accept_control':
softflowd.c:1097: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 
'fgets' differ in signedness
softflowd.c:1101: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 
'__builtin_strchr' differ in signedness
softflowd.c:1101: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in 
signedness
softflowd.c:1109: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 
'strlen' differ in signedness
softflowd.c:1109: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 
'__builtin_strcmp' differ in signedness
softflowd.c:1109: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 
'strlen' differ in signedness
... snip ...
softflowd.c:1160: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 
'__builtin_strcmp' differ in signedness
softflowd.c:1160: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 
'__builtin_strcmp' differ in signedness
softflowd.c: In function 'main':
softflowd.c:1749: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of 'memset'
make: *** [softflowd.o] Error 1

> What version of gcc are you using? something from the 4.x series perhaps?

me at mymachine:~/softflowd-0.9.7$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v 
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,f95,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr 
--enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib 
--without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls 
--program-suffix=-4.0 --enable-__cxa_atexit 
--enable-libstdcxx-allocator=mt --enable-clocale=gnu 
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=gtk 
--enable-gtk-cairo 
--with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-4.0-1.4.2.0/jre 
--enable-mpfr --disable-werror --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.0.2 (Debian 4.0.2-2)

Aha!  I reconfigured and remade with gcc-3.3 and she seems to be working.

Is GCC 4.0 buggy?

Tony