PHP 4.0 Bug #7474: ext/standard/scanf.c reports strtol/strtoul "undefined reference"

From: widman@cardiothink.com Operating system: SunOs 4.1.4 (!) PHP version: 4.0.3pl1 PHP Bug Type: Compile Failure Bug description: ext/standard/scanf.c reports strtol/strtoul "undefined reference" SunOs 4.1.4 has strtol (at least, the man page for it). And, ext/mysql/libmysql has a replacement for strtol/strtoul. But, the "out of the box" compile fails in ext/standard/scanf.c with the complaint: strtol/strtoul are "undefined references". I tried to cut and paste from the files in ext/mysql/libmysql but got a zillion compiler errors. Then, I added the following to the start of scanf.c based on the SunOs man page: long strtol( char *str, char **ptr, int base ); ulong strtoul( char *str, char **ptr, int base ); The compile succeeded, but complained that these functions had been defined as int implicitly in ./Zend/zend_operators.c. I then changed the added lines to int strtol( char *str, char **ptr, int base ); int strtoul( char *str, char **ptr, int base ); These lines allowed the file to compile without warnings, and the rest of the php4 compile proceeded smoothly. I guess I'll just have to see whether I should have gone through the entire package and defined these functions as long/ulong everywhere instead of making them "int" in this one file. I don't know how best to handle this idiosyncracy in the php4 package. I searched everything in /usr/include for definitions of strtol and strtoul, but couldn't find any files that define them. Maybe you could include a short .h file with these definitions, or add them to a global file for those systems that don't define these right. Thanks for all your hard work! - Larry Widman -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=7474&edit=1