Bug 730408

Summary:	net-dns/maradns fails to compile
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
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 INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	ktrace, proxy-maint
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	build.log find.log

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2020-07-01 20:25:13 UTC

@@This is an auto-filed bug@@
Feel free to change the summary at your convenience.

Issue: net-dns/maradns fails to compile.
Discovered on: amd64

NOTE:
If you need further logs, feel free to ask.

Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2020-07-01 20:25:19 UTC

Created attachment 647334 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

Comment 2 Piotr Karbowski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-07-02 07:11:19 UTC

Cannot reproduce, can you give me `find /var/tmp/portage/net-dns/maradns-3.5.0005/` output?

Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2020-07-02 08:35:12 UTC

Created attachment 647350 [details]
find.log

find

Comment 4 Sam Trenholme 2022-11-30 15:46:08 UTC

The problems are caused because make is invoked as `make -j4 V=1`; the flag V is used by MaraDNS to pass the version number when compiling MaraDNS.  Don’t invoke Make with those arguments, and MaraDNS compiles just fine.  On Arm64; I compile MaraDNS almost every day on my Raspberry Pi without issue.

Make without arguments should be used instead; make works with GNU make, bmake, and even pdpmake in non-strict POSIX mode [1]

[1] MaraDNS, like most real world programs, won’t compile with a strictly POSIX implementation of make because of a bug in the current POSIX spec for make, but does compile if the make implementation follows the next version of POSIX.  

[2] I’ve open up a bug for MaraDNS in bug 883761 but it’s not marked as a MaraDNS bug.

Comment 5 Sam Trenholme 2022-11-30 15:57:09 UTC

Another note from upstream: If a maintainer wants a less frequently updated fork of MaraDNS to maintain, I still update the 3.4 branch with security and other very important bug fixes (e.g. Y2038 bugs were recently fixed in this branch).  The current version of 3.4 is 3.4.09, and it’s prominently visible on the MaraDNS download page.

I still maintain this version mainly for downstream distro packages, since it allows someone to be a maintainer for MaraDNS without having to keep up with all of the 3.5 changes.