Bug 662316

Summary:	media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.4.4-r7 fails to compile with ./.libs/libfbsplashrender.so: undefined reference to `makedev'
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Patrick McMunn <doctorwhoguy>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	major	CC:	jstein, treecleaner
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PATCH, PMASKED
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/joan2937/pigpio/issues/188
Whiteboard:	Pending removal: 2018-11-21
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	patch for src/common.c output of emerge --info

Description Patrick McMunn 2018-07-28 01:37:09 UTC

splashutils fails to compile with the error message below. I'm attaching a patch which fixes the issue. The URL above points to a bug report for another program which failed for the same reason, and the fix also works for splashutils. It's supposedly related to glibc>=2.24, but I can't verify that.

  LD      fbcondecor_helper
./.libs/libfbsplashrender.so: undefined reference to `makedev'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [Makefile:985: fbcondecor_ctl] Error 1
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
./.libs/libfbsplashrender.so: undefined reference to `makedev'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [Makefile:997: fbsplashd] Error 1
./.libs/libfbsplashrender.a(libfbsplashrender_la-common.o): In function `dev_create':
common.c:(.text+0x8a): undefined reference to `makedev'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Patrick McMunn 2018-07-28 01:57:34 UTC

Created attachment 541476 [details, diff]
patch for src/common.c

Comment 2 Patrick McMunn 2018-07-28 02:00:19 UTC

Created attachment 541478 [details]
output of emerge --info

Comment 3 Michał Górny archtester

2018-11-28 13:20:04 UTC

Package removed.