Bug 270694 – x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.06 fails to compile with glibc-2.10.1

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Francisco J. Vazquez 2009-05-21 10:23:59 UTC]

Emerging rxvt-unicode fails with the following error:

x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -I.. -I. -I. -I./../libev -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/include/freetype2   -march=core2 -O2 -pipe -w -DDEBUG_STRICT  -c command.C
command.C: In member function ‘void rxvt_term::process_xterm_seq(int, const char*, char)’:
command.C:3339: error: invalid conversion from ‘const char*’ to ‘char*’
make[1]: *** [command.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.06/work/rxvt-unicode-9.06/src'
make: *** [all] Error 1

The line 3339 that fails in command.C is:

char *eq = strchr (str, '='); // constness lost, but verified to be ok

I assume this is related to this: http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20948.html (see the C++ compliance part) so it's related to glibc-2.10.1

Reproducible: Always




$ emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc33 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.0, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.29.3 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.29.3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:00:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p24
dev-lang/python:     2.6.2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.9
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.29
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="buildpkg distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/x11 /usr/local/portage/layman/gcc-porting /usr/local/portage/layman/gnome /usr/local/portage/overlay"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode fbcon firefox flac fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jingle joystick jpeg jpeg2k libnotify mad midi mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd pulseaudio python qt3support quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb v4l2 vorbis x264 xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel nvidia nouveau"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) 2009-05-21 13:33:07 UTC]

Patch in URL, please try it out.

Fedora people tend to call everything related to glibc-2.10 gcc-4.4 bugs because they switched both at around the same time.

[Comment 2 Francisco J. Vazquez 2009-05-22 00:08:03 UTC]

The patch works ok with rxvt-unicode-9.06, thanks.

[Comment 3 Alex Alexander (RETIRED) 2009-05-24 22:20:49 UTC]

this worked for me as well (gcc-4.4 && glibc-2.10.1)

thanks :)

[Comment 4 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) 2009-06-06 22:06:07 UTC]

+  06 Jun 2009; Peter Alfredsen <[e-mail]>
+  rxvt-unicode-9.06.ebuild, +files/rxvt-unicode-9.06-glibc-2.10.patch:
+  Fix compilation with glibc-2.10, bug 270694. Thanks to Francisco J.
+  Vázquez and Alex 'wired' Alexander for testing.
+