[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/lighttpd: run autoreconf

[Peter Seiderer]

Hello Arnout,

On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 21:42:39 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:

> On 18/11/2021 22:06, Fabrice Fontaine wrote:
> > For an unknown reason, the build fails since bump to version 1.4.60 in
> > commit d62b7f54f00291a50274409fb5510527fd725ffe on:
> >
> > array.c:140:2: error: 'for' loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 mode
> >    for (uint32_t i = 0; i < sz; ++i) {
> >    ^
> >
> > Running autoreconf fixes the build.
> >
> > Fixes:
> >   - http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/0349d8fed35b0766796dd9ba3b8de6ff8bd68fe7
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com>
>
>   After reading this thread and the upstream bug report, I did a bunch more
> analysis and drilled it down to the real issue. See the bug report and the
> updated commit message:
>
>      Since upstream commit bb1d35dc1767 [1] (which is part of the bump to
>      version 1.4.60), configure.ac no longer checks for a specific C
>      standard. It will therefore use the "default" standard. With autoconf
>      2.69 (which is what is used to generate the configure script in the
>      tarball), the default standard is C89, which requires no option to be
>      passed to the compiler. However, that means that older compilers, e.g.
>      GCC 4.8, will indeed use C89 and not C99. This leads to the following
>      error.
>
>      array.c:140:2: error: 'for' loop initial declarations are only allowed in
> C99 mode
>        for (uint32_t i = 0; i < sz; ++i) {
>        ^
>
>      In autoconf 2.71 (which is used by Buildroot), the default standard has
>      changed: it is now C11 if available, C99 failing that, and finally fall
>      back to C89. Since GCC 4.8 (and later) support C11, that's what will be
>      selected, so C99 is allowed as well. Thus, running autoreconf fixes the
>      build.
>
>      The issue was reported upstream [2].
>
>      Fixes:
>       -
> http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/0349d8fed35b0766796dd9ba3b8de6ff8bd68fe7
>
>      [1]
> https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/repository/14/revisions/bb1d35dc17671bc308e25651b4f5fa0c3008cc69
>      [2] https://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/3116
>
>
>   Applied to master, thanks.

Wow, thanks for further investigation and detailed/proper write up!

Regards,
Peter

>
>   Regards,
>   Arnout
>
> > ---
> >   package/lighttpd/lighttpd.mk | 2 ++
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/package/lighttpd/lighttpd.mk b/package/lighttpd/lighttpd.mk
> > index 9c18a6038e..c39a5db20f 100644
> > --- a/package/lighttpd/lighttpd.mk
> > +++ b/package/lighttpd/lighttpd.mk
> > @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ LIGHTTPD_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
> >   LIGHTTPD_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
> >   LIGHTTPD_CPE_ID_VENDOR = lighttpd
> >   LIGHTTPD_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf
> > +# Issue in configure script provided in tarball
> > +LIGHTTPD_AUTORECONF = YES
> >   LIGHTTPD_CONF_OPTS = \
> >   	--without-wolfssl \
> >   	--libdir=/usr/lib/lighttpd \
> >
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