Bug 917507

Summary:	net-misc/whois-5.5.20 fails to build with GCC 10
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	P. Roth <proth+gentoobugs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam, toolchain
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PullRequest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915603 https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/33872
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Description P. Roth 2023-11-17 15:09:58 UTC

Compilation fails due to using __attribute__((malloc(free))), which is a new feature introduced with GCC 11. It's not implemented in GCC 10 (which is still stable in Gentoo), resulting in: "error: wrong number of arguments specified for ‘malloc’ attribute"

(The same caused an error with 5.5.19 and Clang, see Bug 915603.)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2023-11-17 15:11:40 UTC

GCC 10 is EOL and the only reason it hasn't been masked yet was because people weren't happy when I immediately masked 9.x when 9.5.0 was released (at which point it became EOL).

I'll just go ahead and do that now, as it's overdue.

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2023-11-17 15:14:39 UTC

(Actually, I'll do it later on, as I suspect there may be a complication with Ada. But yes, stop using it.)

Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2023-11-19 11:57:22 UTC

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b0efe50bef19688c248e91e0eba870e052d65416

commit b0efe50bef19688c248e91e0eba870e052d65416
Author:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2023-11-17 15:12:11 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2023-11-19 11:56:35 +0000

    profiles: mask <sys-devel/gcc-11 (GCC 10 is EOL)
    
    GCC 10 is EOL - it has been since GCC 10.5 was released in July.
    
    It's hard to get the balance right here - if we mask immediately on the release
    of .5 of a series, some people aren't happy, and it's indeed kind of a nuisance
    for stabling the last version of a series too. (I did it the day-of for 9.5.x
    and had some feedback on it from users.)
    
    In any case, by now, it's certainly overdue. Move to GCC 11 or newer, please.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/917507
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/33872
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 profiles/package.mask | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)