Bug 887249

Summary:	net-misc/vmpsd-1.4: many warnings due to missing headers inclusions
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jocelyn Mayer <l_indien>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Robin Johnson <robbat2>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	l_indien
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PATCH
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883125
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	870412
Attachments:	Output from emerge --info =net-misc/vmpsd-1.4 Patch proposal to silent 'implicit declaration of functions' warnings

Description Jocelyn Mayer 2022-12-19 18:28:47 UTC

When merging vmpsd, one will get many warnings:
implicit declaration of function 'xxx'
incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'xxx'
This could potentially lead to bugs if the listed functions would be called with wrong types parameters, as the compiler cannot check them without a valid prototype and can be easily fixed by adding a few headers inclusions.
As upstream seems dead (CVS repository, last release in 2014), I'm not to post a request on sourceforge, at least for now.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge vmpsd
2. Admire the build log

Actual Results:  
Many warnings for implicit declarations of functions.

Expected Results:  
No such warning

Comment 1 Jocelyn Mayer 2022-12-19 18:30:43 UTC

Created attachment 843871 [details]
Output from emerge --info =net-misc/vmpsd-1.4

Comment 2 Jocelyn Mayer 2022-12-19 18:31:26 UTC

Created attachment 843873 [details, diff]
Patch proposal to silent 'implicit declaration of functions' warnings

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2022-12-21 19:16:03 UTC

I think this is pretty much a duplicate of bug 883125 which contains the same errors, but given this has a patch, I'll See Also it.

Comment 4 Jocelyn Mayer 2022-12-21 19:24:22 UTC

Ooops... Sorry...
I did not see the other submission with a search, I would have post the patch there...
I notice the "metabug" #870412 for further patches of the same kind.