Re: Nmap/Lua Compilation Woes

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly () gmail com>]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Richard Moore <rich () westpoint ltd uk> wrote:
> Lionel Cons wrote:
> > Also, looking at the compilation output, I noticed:
> >
> > liblua/liblua.a(loslib.o)(.text+0x197): In function `os_tmpname':
> > /tmp/xxx-azs5k0X7/BUILD/liblua/loslib.c:63: warning: the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
> >
> > This should probably be fixed.
>
> This looks like it's compiling a binding for the tmpnam function,
> so it isn't a problem.
>
> Cheers
>
> Rich.
>
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Lua uses mkstemp() when LUA_USE_POSIX is defined, otherwise it uses
tmpnam() (Windows). What system are you building nmap on?

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