SAMBA_3_0 CVS compile error in nsswitch/wbinfo.c on sparc-sun-solaris2.8

Richard Bollinger rabollinger at attbi.com
Mon Jan 6 15:15:00 GMT 2003


cc: WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0  sparc-sun-solaris2.8

Compiling nsswitch/wbinfo.c
"nsswitch/wbinfo.c", line 586: left operand must be modifiable lvalue: op "="
cc: acomp failed for nsswitch/wbinfo.c
*** Error code 2
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `nsswitch/wbinfo.o'

Problem appears to be a recent change to the declaration for variable "password" to type const char
*.

Fix is to drop the "const" (see below)..

Thanks, Rich B

--- ../source/nsswitch/wbinfo.c Fri Jan  3 07:15:27 2003
+++ ./nsswitch/wbinfo.c Mon Jan  6 10:08:32 2003
@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@

 static BOOL wbinfo_set_auth_user(char *username)
 {
- const char *password;
+ char *password;
  fstring user, domain;

  /* Separate into user and password */




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