[Samba] Samba 4.2.0rc4 fails to start up

[Thomas Schulz]

>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:04:03AM -0500, Thomas Schulz wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:13:42AM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
>>>> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:59:21PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>>>> > > Ah ok - I expected as much. snprintf seems to be
>>>> > > broken in that it's returning -1.
>>>> > > 
>>>> > > Is this our snprintf or one from Solaris ? Can
>>>> > > you try and track down why it's returning -1 ?
>>>> > 
>>>> > Maybe Solaris' snprintf does not know about the %j modifier?
>>>> 
>>>> Crap... Probably our own libreplace snprintf version does
>>>> not do it....
>>>> 
>>>> Volker
>>> 
>>> You guys sure work at odd hours.
>> 
>> Not so odd if you take timezones into account :-)
>> 
>> The attached (uncompiled, I don't have access to Solaris
>> right now) patch *might* already do it for you. Can you give
>> it a try?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Volker
> 
> That seems to work. I put the j back into the sprintf line. I now get
> values of unique such as 5477310573428528709 and unique_len of 20.

I am somewhat surprised that your replacement snprintf is being used as
Solaris does have that function. Just for your information, here is what
configure has to say about *printf.

Checking for printf                             : ok 
Checking for dprintf                            : not found 
Checking for vdprintf                           : not found 
Checking for snprintf                           : ok 
Checking for vsnprintf                          : ok 
Checking for asprintf                           : not found 
Checking for vasprintf                          : not found 
Checking for declaration of snprintf            : ok 
Checking for declaration of vsnprintf           : ok 
Checking for declaration of asprintf            : not found 
Checking for declaration of vasprintf           : not found 
Checking for C99 vsnprintf                      : not found 
Checking for printf format validation support   : ok 

Tom Schulz
Applied Dynamics Intl.
schulz at adi.com