[GRASS5] Problem compiling Grass51

[Paul Kelly]

Hello Radim

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Radim Blazek wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 April 2003 05:18 pm, Paul Kelly wrote:
> > I think we need a G_snprintf() and G_vsnprintf() or something like that.
> > Would it be all right just to copy the code straight from a 3rd party
> > snprintf implementation to enable this?
>
> I replaced vsnprintf by vfprintf. G_asprintf() seems to be even better
> than G_snprintf(). Can I add G_asprintf() suggested by Eric G. Miller
> (http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2002-May/002936.html) to 5.1?

I have added Eric's G_asprintf to 5.1 now as I tested it a bit and it
seemed to work best for me. So now it can get a bit more testing. I didn't
realise before but it needs to be used like:

	char *str;
	G_asprintf( &str, "format etc..%s", otherstring);
	/*
		do something
	*/
	G_free(str);

I hope it works and is useful

Paul