From: David Bremner <bremner(a)debian.org&gt; According to the docs for realpath, it will allocate its own buffer (of up to size PATH_MAX) using malloc. This may incur a small performance penalty, but avoids a build problem on Debian GNU/Hurd, where PATH_MAX is not available. --- This patch should apply to syncevolution 1.1 src/syncevo/util.cpp | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/syncevo/util.cpp b/src/syncevo/util.cpp index b4dfd18..e492941 100644 --- a/src/syncevo/util.cpp +++ b/src/syncevo/util.cpp @@ -117,9 +117,10 @@ void splitPath(const string &path, string &dir, string &file) bool relToAbs(string &path) { - char buffer[PATH_MAX+1]; - if (realpath(path.c_str(), buffer)) { + char *buffer=NULL; + if (buffer = realpath(path.c_str(), NULL)) { path = buffer; + free(buffer); return true; } else { return false; -- 1.7.2.3