[Samba] Samba 4 on AIX with XLC

[Benjamin Huntsman]

>On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 10:58:08PM +0000, Benjamin Huntsman wrote:
>> As a further follow-up, here's an example, from source3/utils/net_cache.c:
>>
>> d_printf(_("Key: %s\t Timeout: %s\t Value: %s  %s\n"), keystr,
>>                  timeout_str, datastr, timeout > now_t ? "": _("(expired)"));
>>
>> My C skills aren't good enough to understand what's being done here, but the offending bit is the last argument to d_printf:
>>
>> timeout > now_t ? "": _("(expired)")
>>
>> Is there a way we can re-write this in more compatible way?
>>
>> Apparently, this construction is supposed to look like:
>>
>> (condition) ? (t_result) : (f_result)
>>
>> and t_result and f_result must be of the same type.  So do I read that "" is a char, and _("(expired)") is an int?  Something like:
>>
>> timeout > now_t ? atoi(""):_("(expired)") maybe?
>>
>> Again, just grasping here...
>> ... or maybe there's a flag to XLC to let us get by this?
>
>No, both "" and _("(expired)") should evaluate to a const char *.
>
>Looks like the error is that _("xxxx") isn't evaluating to a string
>on AIX with xlc.

Hi there!  Many many thanks for responding!!

Any idea how we could track it back to see why that'd be?  Did I mess it up during the configure, or am I the first person to try to build samba-4.0.0 on AIX with XLC?

Thanks!!
-Ben