[Mimedefang] Compiling MD on FC4 - warning: pointer targets difer in signedness

[Video Game Junkie]

Make sure that you edit your /etc/sysconfig/i18n file and change the line:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

To something like:

LANG="en_US"

I compiled MD 2.52 on FC4 w/o any problems, and this could be a good
first step to look at.

-J

On 8/21/05, Yizhar Hurwitz <yizhar at mail.com> wrote:
> HI.
> 
> I'm getting warnings when running "make" to compile MimeDefang on Fedora Core 4.
> I have done the following:
> ./configure (no problems)
> make  (Here I get the warnings).
> 
> Here are some lines with warnings from the make command output:
> 
> md-mx-ctrl.c: In function ?percent_decode':
> md-mx-ctrl.c:71: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ?sscanf' dif
> er in signedness
> md-mx-ctrl.c: In function ?buildCmd':
> md-mx-ctrl.c:176: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ?percent_en
> ode' differ in signedness
> md-mx-ctrl.c:176: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of ?percent_en
> ode' differ in signedness
> md-mx-ctrl.c: In function ?doCmd':
> md-mx-ctrl.c:239: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ?percent_de
> ode' differ in signedness
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -o md-mx-ctrl md-mx-ctrl.o -lnsl
> test "" != "1" && strip md-mx-ctrl
> 
> More information:
> ------------------------
> This is my first Mimedefang installation.
> mimedefang version which I'm trying to install = 2.52
> I am following the how to guide:
> http://www.mickeyhill.com/mimedefang-howto
> It is on a test machine (Virtual PC) with Fedora Core 4.
> Sendmail is installed from RPM and running (version 8.13.4-2)
> I have updated GCC and related packages from gcc 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 but it didn't change anything.
> "make" version is 3.80
> Other installed packages (most of them from RPM either FC4 cdrom or "yum"):
> clamav-0.86.2-1
> spamassassin-3.0.4-1.fc4
> perl-5.8.6-15
> Linux Kernel version = 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
> 
> Afterwards I did "make install" and it seemed to work fine,
> but I don't know if it is OK or not.
> I have not completed the installation and configuration yet so I don't know if it is actually working.
> 
> So, what can you tell me about these warnings:
> pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ... differ in signedness
> ?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Yizhar Hurwitz
> http://yizhar.mvps.org
> 
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