Bug 82395 – PECL-mailparse fails to compile on a system running PHP5

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Nick Stenning 2005-02-17 13:00:41 UTC]

emerge -av PECL-mailparse
First I noticed the tar error message:
>>> Unpacking mailparse-2.0b.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/PECL-mailparse-2.0b/work
tar: A lone zero block at 339
>>> Source unpacked.

then, loads of build errors, starting like this:

In file included from /var/tmp/portage/PECL-mailparse-2.0b/work/mailparse-2.0b/php_mailparse_mime.c:21:
/var/tmp/portage/PECL-mailparse-2.0b/work/mailparse-2.0b/php_mailparse.h:86:49: ext/mbstring/libmbfl/mbfl/mbfilter.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /var/tmp/portage/PECL-mailparse-2.0b/work/mailparse-2.0b/php_mailparse.h:95,
                 from /var/tmp/portage/PECL-mailparse-2.0b/work/mailparse-2.0b/php_mailparse_mime.c:21:
/var/tmp/portage/PECL-mailparse-2.0b/work/mailparse-2.0b/php_mailparse_mime.h:68: error: parse error before "mbfl_convert_filter"
/var/tmp/portage/PECL-mailparse-2.0b/work/mailparse-2.0b/php_mailparse_mime.h:68: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
/var/tmp/portage/PECL-mailparse-2.0b/work/mailparse-2.0b/php_mailparse_mime.h:82: error: parse error before '}' token
/var/tmp/portage/PECL-mailparse-2.0b/work/mailparse-2.0b/php_mailparse_mime.c: In function `php_mimepart_alloc':
/var/tmp/portage/PECL-mailparse-2.0b/work/mailparse-2.0b/php_mailparse_mime.c:142: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an incomplete type
/var/tmp/portage/PECL-mailparse-2.0b/work/mailparse-2.0b/php_mailparse_mime.c:144: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
On a system running ~x86 dev-php/[mod_]php[-cgi]:
1. emerge -av PECL-mailparse
Actual Results:  
ending like:

/var/tmp/portage/PECL-mailparse-2.0b/work/mailparse-2.0b/mailparse.c: In function 
`zif_mailparse_msg_get_part':
/var/tmp/portage/PECL-mailparse-2.0b/work/mailparse-2.0b/mailparse.c:1522: error: dereferencing 
pointer to incomplete type
/var/tmp/portage/PECL-mailparse-2.0b/work/mailparse-2.0b/mailparse.c:1523: error: dereferencing 
pointer to incomplete type
make: *** [mailparse.lo] Error 1

!!! ERROR: dev-php/PECL-mailparse-2.0b failed.
!!! Function php-ext-source_src_compile, Line 43, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

Expected Results:  
emerged successfully

Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-
r6 i686)
===============================================================
==
System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 12 2005, 23:52:25)]
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]ccache version 2.3 
[enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.21-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/
qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/      http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/
www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/      http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/      ftp://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/
pub/gentoo/      http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/      ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/
rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 aac acpi acpi4linux apache2 apm bash-completion berkdb cdr crypt cups curl dvd encode 
f77 font-server foomaticdb fortran freetype gd gdbm gif imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 java jpeg 
junit libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mikmod motif mysql mysqli ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam 
pcre pdflib pear-db perl php png postgres python readline ruby samba sdl slang sockets socks5 spell 
sqlite ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml xml2 zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2005-02-18 00:36:36 UTC]

The PECL mailparse package requires PHP to be built with the mbstring extension which in Gentoo is controlled by the nls USE flag.

[Comment 2 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2005-02-18 00:41:59 UTC]

Apparently having PHP built with the mbstring extension is not enough. The mbstring headers have to be installed, too. Will look into a solution for this.

[Comment 3 Nick Stenning 2005-02-26 09:47:32 UTC]

Any word on this. I don't mean to pressurise but I have recently upgraded a production web server to PHP5 and have a client breathing down my neck about Mailparse being broken.

[Comment 4 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2005-02-26 23:04:31 UTC]

The PHP 4 build system finds the mbstring headers and the PHP 5 build system does not. This is an UPSTREAM bug (http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=3516).

[Comment 5 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2005-02-27 22:08:13 UTC]

dev-php/php-5.0.3-r1 is in portage now and has the upstream patch that solves the issue.