Bug 827862

Summary:	dev-util/cproto-4.7s doesn't function
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	notzed <notzed+github>
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 FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description notzed 2021-11-29 21:31:00 UTC

I tried installing cproto and discovered it just doesn't work now.

e.g.

cproto -x /usr/include/stdio.h

produces only the filename comment and no prototypes, a working version produces a few dozen lines.

I couldn't track down why - it's perhaps something to do with updates to bison/flex/gcc but that is only a guess and I wasn't able to determine when it stopped working.  I tried multiple versions of cproto and they were all equally broken which indicates some external factor.  cproto has a make check target but it requires human parsing to determine failure and doesn't error out from make.

I found that passing --enable-llib to configure will create a functioning tool and I reported this to the upstream maintainer.  He's prepared a new release (4.7t) which just enables the option automatically if the prerequisites are available [1] so presumably a version bump is the best option.  I did a trivial check to confirm it 'works'.

[1] https://invisible-island.net/cproto/CHANGES.html#t20211126

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2021-11-29 22:30:55 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=88ea6887ecacdc8615d87eaa1b43abe085dc5e64

commit 88ea6887ecacdc8615d87eaa1b43abe085dc5e64
Author:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-11-29 22:30:38 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2021-11-29 22:30:38 +0000

    dev-util/cproto: add 4.7t
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/827862
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 dev-util/cproto/Manifest           |  1 +
 dev-util/cproto/cproto-4.7t.ebuild | 15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2021-11-29 22:31:07 UTC

Thanks a lot for the report & taking it upstream!

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2021-11-29 22:34:35 UTC

(In reply to Sam James from comment #2)
> Thanks a lot for the report & taking it upstream!

It would be worth seeing if upstream are willing to make the check target fatal on failure.