libjava/java/net/natInetAddressPosix.cc is broken on system which have no limit for the hostname length (i.e., GNU): /build/buildd/gcj-4.1-4.1.1/build/./gcc/xgcc -shared-libgcc -B/build/buildd/gcj-4.1-4.1.1/build/./gcc -nostdinc++ -L/build/buildd/gcj-4.1-4.1.1/build/i486-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src -L/build/buildd/gcj-4.1-4.1.1/build/i486-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src/.libs -B/usr/i486-gnu/bin/ -B/usr/i486-gnu/lib/ -isystem /usr/i486-gnu/include -isystem /usr/i486-gnu/sys-include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../src/libjava -I./include -I./gcj -I../../../src/libjava -Iinclude -I../../../src/libjava/include -I../../../src/libjava/classpath/include -I../../../src/libjava/classpath/native/fdlibm -I../../../src/libjava/../boehm-gc/include -I../boehm-gc/include -I../../../src/libjava/libltdl -I../../../src/libjava/libltdl -I../../../src/libjava/.././libjava/../gcc -I../../../src/libjava/../libffi/include -I../libffi/include -fno-rtti -fnon-call-exceptions -fdollars-in-identifiers -Wswitch-enum -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -ffloat-store -fomit-frame-pointer -Wextra -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPREFIX=\"/usr\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib\" -DJAVA_HOME=\"/usr\" -DBOOT_CLASS_PATH=\"/usr/share/java/libgcj-4.1.2.jar\" -DJAVA_EXT_DIRS=\"/usr/share/java/ext\" -DGCJ_ENDORSED_DIRS=\"/usr/share/java/gcj-endorsed\" -DLIBGCJ_DEFAULT_DATABASE=\"/var/lib/gcj-4.1/classmap.db\" -DLIBGCJ_DEFAULT_DATABASE_PATH_TAIL=\"gcj-4.1/classmap.db\" -DTOOLEXECLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib\" -g -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -MT java/net/natInetAddress.lo -MD -MP -MF java/net/.deps/natInetAddress.Tpo -c java/net/natInetAddress.cc -fPIC -DPIC -o java/net/.libs/natInetAddress.o ../../../src/libjava/java/lang/Class.h: In member function 'java::lang::Class* java::lang::Class::getComponentType()': ../../../src/libjava/java/lang/Class.h:354: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules java/net/natInetAddress.cc: In static member function 'static java::lang::String* java::net::InetAddress::getLocalHostname()': java/net/natInetAddress.cc:287: error: 'MAXHOSTNAMELEN' was not declared in this scope java/net/natInetAddress.cc:288: error: 'buffer' was not declared in this scope java/net/natInetAddress.cc:290: error: 'buffer' was not declared in this scope make[6]: *** [java/net/natInetAddress.lo] Error 1 make[6]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/gcj-4.1-4.1.1/build/i486-gnu/libjava' Source is from gcj-4.1_4.1.1-6 from Debian unstable.
(In reply to comment #0) > libjava/java/net/natInetAddressPosix.cc is broken on system which have no limit > for the hostname length (i.e., GNU): s/GNU/Hurd/. Also this is a dup of bug 21821. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21821 ***
> s/GNU/Hurd/. Sure, I was merely following the GNU project's terminology here. > Also this is a dup of bug 21821. Maybe I am blind, but I don't see this particular issue mentioned in that bug, nor adressed by the patches attached to it. I thought about following up to that PR, but as this bug is about MAXHOSTNAMELEN and #21821 is about MAXPATHLEN, I decided to open a new bug, sorry. Can you elaborate?