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Re: [Nbd] [PATCH] build: Fix build with older gcc



On 12/20/2016 02:28 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 04:23:01PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 12/19/2016 04:15 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> gcc 4.4.7 (hello RHEL 6) complains about redefinition of typedefs,
>>> as in:
>>>
>>> gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -DSYSCONFDIR='"/usr/local/etc"'  -g -O2  -g -O2 -MT nbd_client-buffer.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/nbd_client-buffer.Tpo -c -o nbd_client-buffer.o `test -f 'buffer.c' || echo './'`buffer.c
>>> buffer.c:39: error: redefinition of typedef ‘buffer_t’
>>> buffer.h:31: note: previous declaration of ‘buffer_t’ was here
>>>
>>> The .c file only has to declare the struct being typedef'd, not
>>> repeat the typedef declaration.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@...696...>
>>> ---
>>>  buffer.c        | 4 ++--
>>>  crypto-gnutls.c | 4 ++--
>>>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> With this patch, I was able to run 'make check' on my RHEL 6 machine,
>> with its older gnutls-devel-2.12.23-17.el6.x86_64.  There were two test
>> failures, both related to the recent STARTTLS additions, but I don't
>> have enough time or tls experience to try and debug them today. It may
>> just be a bug in the testsuite, not prepared to handle the difference
>> between older and modern gnutls.
> 
> I was working on finalising the TLS support last night, and there may
> have been a few moments where I pushed some commits that broke the build
> in similar ways. The final version should work, though.
> 
> Can you verify if the problem persists with today's git HEAD?

The compilation failure due to redefinition of typedefs is still present
in the 3.15.1 release.

The testsuite failures of ./tls and ./tlshuge are likewise still
present, so it's definitely something related to the older gnutls version.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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