Re: Libtasn1 4.10 build failure with musl library

[Maxin B. John]

Hi Nikos,

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Maxin B. John <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While building Libtasn1 4.10 with musl in Yocto project, we observed
>> this build error:
>> ...
>> make[4]: *** [progname.lo] Error 1
>> make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>> In file included from
>> TOPDIR/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux-musl/libtasn1/4.10-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/include/endian.h:23:0,
>>                  from
>> TOPDIR/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux-musl/libtasn1/4.10-r0/recipe-sysroot/usr/include/sys/types.h:70,
>>                  from ./sys/types.h:28,
>>                  from ./stdio.h:58,
>>                  from ../../libtasn1-4.10/gl/read-file.h:25,
>>                  from ../../libtasn1-4.10/gl/read-file.c:20:
>> ./stdint.h:89:5: error: #if with no expression
>>  #if
>> ...
>> (Link: http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/123659/ )
>>
>> This appears to be an error introduced by the gnulib commit:
>>
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=5a400b3f5a1f5483dbfd75d38bdb7080218a063b
>>
>> *  m4/stdint.m4 (gl_STDINT_H): Don't define GNULIB_OVERRIDES_WINT_T.
>>
>> Reverting the changes in stdint.m4 seems to fix it. Please let me know
>> if that is an acceptable fix.
>
> Hi Maxin,
>  Have you reported this to gnulib guys? Reverting the gnulib update
> could be a short time fix but in the long run we will update gnulib
> again and if the culprit isn't fixed upstream the problem will return.

I haven't contacted the gnulib guys yet. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Will report this to gnulib mailing list.

> regards,
> Nikos

Warm Regards,
Maxin