Re: Issue with mkdtemp() in port.h

Caleb Welton <cwelton(at)pivotal(dot)io> writes:
> A little while back some users started complaining that the contrib module
> I develop (MADlib) was failing to build with the following error:
> /usr/include/postgresql/9.2/server/port.h:480:32: error: declaration of
> 'char* mkdtemp(char*)' has a different exception specifier
> /usr/include/stdlib.h:663:14: error: from previous declaration 'char*
> mkdtemp(char*) throw ()'
> After some research I've tracked this down to the following commit from ~4
> months ago:
> https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/a919937f112eb2f548d5f9bd1b3a7298375e6380

Hm. Looks like the extern that added should have been protected by
#ifndef HAVE_MKDTEMP
similarly to the other cases where we conditionally provide a substitute
function.

regards, tom lane