[Dovecot] BUG to compile dovecot 2.1.10 on Debian 4.0, using gcc 4.1.2

[Jack Bates]

It looks like this might be a bug in glibc 2.3.3

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1392


Jack

On 10/1/2012 2:20 PM, Fabio Depin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Today I needed to compile dovecot 2.1.10 on Debian 4.0, using gcc 4.1.2.
> When running 'make' getting the following error:
> -------------------------------------------------- --------
> db-checkpassword.c: In function 'sigchld_handler':
> db-checkpassword.c: 426: error: assignment of read-only member '__in'
> db-checkpassword.c: 429: error: assignment of read-only member '__in'
> db-checkpassword.c: 431: error: assignment of read-only member '__in'
> db-checkpassword.c: 432: error: assignment of read-only member '__in'
> make [3]: ** [db-checkpassword.o] Error 1
> make [3]: ** Waiting for other processes to finish.
> mv-f .deps / auth-worker-server.Tpo .deps / auth-worker-server.Po
> make [3]: Leaving directory `/ usr/src/dovecot/dovecot-2.1.7/src/auth '
> make [2]: ** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make [2]: Leaving directory `/ usr/src/dovecot/dovecot-2.1.7/src '
> make [1]: ** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make [1]: Leaving directory `/ usr/src/dovecot/dovecot-2.1.7 '
> make: ** [all] Error 2
> -------------------------------------------------- --------
>
> -To work did the following:
> -------------------------------------------------- --------
> 417a418
> + Int stat = status-> status;
> 426c427
> - If (WIFSIGNALED (status-> status)) {
> ---
> + If (WIFSIGNALED (stat)) {
> 429c430
> - Dec2str (status-> pid), WTERMSIG (status-> status));
> ---
> + Dec2str (status-> pid), WTERMSIG (stat));
> 431.432 c432, 433
> -} Else if (WIFEXITED (status-> status)) {
> - Request-> exit_status WEXITSTATUS = (status-> status);
> ---
> +} Else if (WIFEXITED (stat)) {
> + Request-> exit_status WEXITSTATUS = (stat);
> -------------------------------------------------- --------
>
> With this change worked perfectly ntanto in debian 4 with gcc 4.1.2, as in
> debian 6 with gcc 4.4.5.
> -I wonder if I made the change may affect any function of dovecot, or if it is
> correct.
>
> Thank you for your attention.
> Fabio Depin
>