On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:31:07AM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Ferenc Wagner <wf...@niif.hu> writes: > > > - execvp("udhcpc", arguments); > > + /* execvp doesn't like const strings for no reason, so we can > > + cast away the const to suppress the compiler warning */ > > + execvp("udhcpc", (char **)arguments); > > Actually, I started to feel bad about this part. Maybe it would be > wiser to use non-const strings from the beginning? That would require a > larger patch, though... And ignoring the warning hasn't caused any > trouble yet. Does anybody know why execvp hates const strings?
I have no idea. I've fixed those build warnings (and the "address of <foo> will always evaluate to true" warnings) in my tree; I'm not going to push them for squeeze, though. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110107035352.gn2...@hezmatt.org