From: Michael D. Ober [obermd.@.alum.mit.edu.nospam]
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:34 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: SAMBA for VMS (The saga continues!)

JYC's page talks about this specific issue and there is a download for it.

Mike Ober.

"John Malmberg" <malmberg@dskwld.zko.dec.compaq.hp> wrote in message
news:fPHMe.10496$ng2.3581@news.cpqcorp.net...
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> > Well, I am about out of time for this.  It is not looking good.
> >
> > After running BUILD.COM I get:
> >
> > %LINK-W-USEUNDEF, undefined symbol SNPRINTF referenced
> >         in psect $CODE offset %X000006A1
> >         in module TALLOC file
USERS:[HOME.SYSTEM.SAMBA.SOURCE.BIN]SAMBA.OLB;1
> >
> > I can understand the VSNPRINTF references as I can't find that one
anywhere
> > in the sources, but SNPRINTF is in SAMBA.OLB as verified by running
"LIBRARY
> > /LIST SAMBA.OLB".
> >
> > So, one last time.  Is there anywhere I can find a version of SAMBA that
> > will actually build and run on a VAX or am I really wasting my time?
>
> There are people on the SAMBA-VMS mailing list that claim to be running
> this version of SAMBA on VAX.  And the SAMBA-VMS mailing list appears to
> be the forum that the person maintaining that distribution is reading.
> They are clearly not reading comp.os.vms.
>
> The missing routines are a result of something being wrong in the
> config.h file and a file being missing from the build that contains the
> replacement routines.
>
> This bug is showing up primarily because those replacement routines will
> cause problems with current versions of OpenVMS Alpha and I64 because
> they were coded incorrectly to have the exact same names as routines
> defined by the X/Open group that are now in the 64 bit versions of
OpenVMS.
>
> So instead of fixing their symbol names to be unique, and using macros
> for conditional use, the module was just removed from the build procedure.
>
> The quick fix is to add the missing file to the build procedure, I think
> it is called SNPRINTF.C and should be present in the sources.
>
> The correct fix is to make sure that the replacement routines are always
> named SAMBA_SNPRINTF and SAMBA_VSNPRINTF in the SNPRINTF.C routine, and
> then in config.h there should be:
>
> #ifdef __CRTL_VER
> #if __CRTL_VER < 70312000
> #define snprintf samba_snprintf
> #define vsnprintf samba_vsnprintf
> #endif
> #else
> #define snprintf samba_snprintf
> #define vsnprintf samba_vsnprintf
> #endif
>
> Then the same build procedure can be used on VAX/ALPHA and that part
> should still work with older versions of VMS.
>
> The build procedure only needs to add that object file to the library
> for older versions of VMS, but once it is coded properly it can be
> present with out causing problems.
>
> This bug in SNPRINTF.C for using the incorrect symbols has been fixed in
> the UNIX version of SAMBA for quite a while because it also causes
> problems on some versions of UNIX.
>
> -John
> malmberg@dskwld.zko.dec.compaq.hp
> Personal Opinion Only
>