[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Fix compilation on OpenBSD

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:05:45AM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tuesday 18 November 2008 14:35, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> [...]
> > >> How can anyone live under such conditions?
> > >
> > > Security implies some limitations.
> >
> > I doubt that make 3.80 is any more or less secure than make
> > 3.81, but whatever.
> 
> This is not a question of gmake itself, indeed. This is a question 
> of security policy: install nothing outside the main ports tree. 
> Technically I can broke this rule, but than other people may do 
> the same and security will likely to be broken eventually one way 
> or another. The only exception is MPlayer SVN HEAD. But there are 
> some serious reasons for this decision.

Now one has to wonder why outdated software is supposed to be more
secure ...


[...]
> > >> 3. Aside from the above, this is the wrong place to add a
> > >> missing definition of INFINITY.
> > >
> > > Why? Have you a better idea?
> >
> > Yes, fix your system.
> 
> I can fix it only locally, this will not be available to other 
> people and may be even dropped during updates.

There are 3 options
1. Fix all C programs 
2. Fix all openbsd systems
3. Convince the respective openbsd maintainers to add 1 line to the correct
   header to be a step closer to ISO C99 conformance.

Its clear which of the 3 if successfull is least work overall.

Besides this, i out of principle am against workarounds before the respective
maintainers of the "buggy" code have been contacted.

Bugs should be fixed where they are, not worked around in every piece of code
touching it.

[...]
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