Bug 532254 – net-mail/qpopper-4.1.0 - In file included from pop_dele.c:29:0: popper.h:316:30: error: conflicting types for ‘sys_errlist’

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Toralf Förster 2014-12-11 10:22:16 UTC]

config.status: creating config.h
>>> Source configured.
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/net-mail/qpopper-4.1.0/work/qpopper4.1.0 ...
make -j1 
cd ./popper  && make all
make[1]: Entering directory '/var/tmp/portage/net-mail/qpopper-4.1.0/work/qpopper4.1.0/popper'
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -I.. -I.. -I. \
        -I../mmangle -I../common -I/usr/local/ssl/include \
        -O2 -pipe -march=native -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -DLINUX -DUNIX pop_dele.c -o pop_dele.o
In file included from pop_dele.c:29:0:
popper.h:316:30: error: conflicting types for ‘sys_errlist’
      extern char         *   sys_errlist[];
                              ^
In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:853:0,
                 from pop_dele.c:24:
/usr/include/bits/sys_errlist.h:27:26: note: previous declaration of ‘sys_errlist’ was here
 extern const char *const sys_errlist[];
                          ^
Makefile:224: recipe for target 'pop_dele.o' failed
make[1]: *** [pop_dele.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/net-mail/qpopper-4.1.0/work/qpopper4.1.0/popper'
Makefile:72: recipe for target 'popper_server' failed
make: *** [popper_server] Error 2
 * ERROR: net-mail/qpopper-4.1.0::gentoo failed (compile phase):
 *   emake failed
 




This chroot image is located at a hardened amd64 system.

Portage 2.2.15 (python 2.7.8-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.20, 3.17.6-hardened x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.17.6-hardened-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3770_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    16166924 total,   1839548 free
KiB Swap:   16777212 total,  16776240 free
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:15:01 +0000
sh bash 4.3_p30-r1
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24
app-shells/bash:          4.3_p30-r1
dev-lang/perl:            5.20.1-r3
dev-lang/python:          2.7.8, 3.3.5-r1
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.13.6
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.14.1
sys-devel/binutils:       2.24-r3
sys-devel/gcc:            4.8.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.3-r2
sys-devel/make:           4.1-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.17-r1 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.20
Repositories: gentoo
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--nospinner --tree --quiet-build --deep --jobs 1"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.leaseweb.com/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl amd64 berkdb bindist bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri fortran gdbm iconv ipv6 mbox mmx modules multilib ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pax_kernel pcre readline session sse sse2 ssl tcpd unicode zlib" ABI_X86="64" 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" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 1 Toralf Förster 2014-12-11 10:22:51 UTC]

Created attachment 391426 [details]
emerge log

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2016-04-26 18:11:35 UTC]

Created attachment 432164 [details]
emerge-info.txt

few more data\n\n        -march=native -O2 -pipe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -DLINUX -DUNIX pop_dele.c -o pop_dele.o
In file included from pop_dele.c:29:0:
popper.h:316:30: error: conflicting types for ‘sys_errlist’
      extern char         *   sys_errlist[];
                              ^
In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:853:0,

[Comment 3 Toralf Förster 2016-04-26 18:11:38 UTC]

Created attachment 432166 [details]
emerge-history.txt

[Comment 4 Toralf Förster 2016-04-26 18:11:40 UTC]

Created attachment 432168 [details]
environment

[Comment 5 Toralf Förster 2016-04-26 18:11:43 UTC]

Created attachment 432170 [details]
net-mail:qpopper-4.1.0:20160426-174305.log

[Comment 6 Toralf Förster 2016-09-08 20:50:08 UTC]

*** Bug 586494 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Tom 2016-12-31 10:02:56 UTC]

Hello,

I've noticed this bug has already been reported - same problem here.
Below is a quick patch for fixing the compilation error.

CU Tom

glibc-fix.diff:
--- qpopper4.1.0/popper/popper.h.orig	2011-05-30 21:13:40.000000000 +0200
+++ qpopper4.1.0/popper/popper.h	2016-12-31 09:31:26.910604367 +0100
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@
 #if !( defined(BSD) && (BSD >= 199306) ) && !defined(__USE_BSD)
    extern int              sys_nerr;
 #  ifndef FREEBSD
-     extern char         *   sys_errlist[];
+     extern const char         * const  sys_errlist[];
 #    ifndef SYS_SIGLIST_DECLARED
 #      ifndef __linux__
          extern char         *   sys_siglist[];

[Comment 8 Pacho Ramos 2017-12-05 22:07:48 UTC]

This is still happening

[Comment 9 Pacho Ramos 2017-12-06 19:38:38 UTC]

[master 2d5b72d67dd] net-mail/qpopper: Fix LICENSE (#426048), and compilation with current glibc (#532254 by Tom).
 4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 net-mail/qpopper/files/qpopper-4.1.0-glibc.patch