Warnings when compiling for OpenSUSE

[saigkill]

Hello Mates, i´m compiling for openSUSE. ATM i´m getting:

boinc-client.x86_64: W: shared-lib-calls-exit /usr/lib64/libboinc_graphics2.so.6.10.56 exit@GLIBC_2.2.5
boinc-client.x86_64: W: shared-lib-calls-exit /usr/lib64/libboinc_api.so.6.10.56 exit@GLIBC_2.2.5
This library package calls exit() or _exit(), probably in a non-fork()
context. Doing so from a library is strongly discouraged - when a library
function calls exit(), it prevents the calling program from handling the
error, reporting it to the user, closing files properly, and cleaning up any
state that the program has. It is preferred for the library to return an
actual error code and let the calling program decide how to handle the
situation.

boinc-client.x86_64: W: binary-or-shlib-calls-gethostbyname /usr/lib64/libboinc.so.6.10.56
boinc-client.x86_64: W: binary-or-shlib-calls-gethostbyname /usr/bin/boinc-client
The binary calls gethostbyname(). Please port the code to use getaddrinfo().

Can we fix this?

cu Sascha

[Nicolas]

The first error isn't actually a problem. The BOINC API has a function called boinc_exit that cleans up some things and calls exit. If a science app calls that, it knows it will exit afterwards.

[Christian Beer]

gethostbyname() is deprecated and should be replaced by getaddrinfo()

[davea]

fixed in Linux/Mac?.

I didn't fix in Windows because

• modern network calls are supported only on Vista+
• WxWidgets? uses old network calls, and you can't mix the two