Dovecot 2.2.25 compiling error

[Joseph Tam]

Aki Tuomi wrote:

>>> Well, tried with or without patches, but got still same error:
>>>
>>> sha1.h:80: error: static or type qualifiers in abstract declarator
>>
>> For what it's worth, I get the same error compiling on Solaris 10.
>> It may be because I have a rather old gcc (3.4.4).  Editing out
>> the "static" keyword from config.h allowed it to finish the compile.
>
> It still happened even with
> https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/d9c865ce774aae9f2f17b89e7e94c3cfca29dea7
>
> You need to rerun autotools on this before it can do anything.

I don't grok autotools, but I don't think this will solve the problem.
If I understand the patch correctly, it modifies the small program used
by configure to test a C99 feature.

Manually compiling the small test program (with and without the changes
made by the patch) will result in a successful compile, but if you
compile sha1.h (line 80,81), it will fail.

I've reduced the problem to this:

 	void foo(int X[static 20]);

will compile but if you remove "X", it won't.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>