bug#60843: 30.0.50; Build failure on old GNU/Linux system

[Po Lu]

lux <lx@shellcodes.org> writes:

> Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Since the last gnulib merge, Emacs refuses to build on Fedora 9:
>>
>> qcopy-acl.c: In function ‘is_attr_permissions’:
>> qcopy-acl.c:36: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘attr_copy_action’
>> qcopy-acl.c:36: error: ‘ATTR_ACTION_PERMISSIONS’ undeclared (first use in 
>> this function)
>> qcopy-acl.c:36: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>> qcopy-acl.c:36: error: for each function it appears in.)
>>
>> Would someone please take a look at this?  Thanks.
>
> Probably because the version of libattr in Fedora 9 is too low, Fedora 9
> using the libattr-2.4.41, `ATTR_ACTION_PERMISSIONS' is not defined.
>
> I see the `ATTR_ACTION_PERMISSIONS' first defined in 2008-05-19
> (https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/attr.git/commit/?id=467bbfa56a14c1571082cab2385d272bead78fdc)
>
> You can also disable xattr to solve the problem:
>
>     $ ./configure --disable-xattr
>
> I compiled successfully in Fedora 9:
>
>   [root@localhost emacs]# lsb_release -a
>   LSB Version:        
> :core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-amd64:graphics-3.1-noarch
>   Distributor ID:     Fedora
>   Description:        Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
>   Release:    9
>   Codename:   Sulphur
>   [root@localhost emacs]# emacs --version
>   GNU Emacs 30.0.50
>   Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>   GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>   You may redistribute copies of GNU Emacs
>   under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
>   For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

Yes, but it should be fixed in gnulib.  Emacs should compile cleanly
without any arguments to configure.