As a follow-up on this, these two lines also helped me to compile the 1.1rc1 on gcc 2.96: diff -ru dovecot-1.1.beta13/src/lib/str-find.c dovecot-1.1.beta13.patched/src/lib/str-find.c --- dovecot-1.1.beta13/src/lib/str-find.c Tue Oct 23 16:01:16 2007 +++ dovecot-1.1.beta13.patched/src/lib/str-find.c Thu Jan 17 14:08:03 2008 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ unsigned int match_count; int badtab[UCHAR_MAX+1]; - int goodtab[]; + int goodtab[0]; }; static void init_badtab(struct str_find_context *ctx) diff -ru dovecot-1.1.beta13/src/lib-imap/imap-match.c dovecot-1.1.beta13.patched/src/lib-imap/imap-match.c --- dovecot-1.1.beta13/src/lib-imap/imap-match.c Sun Dec 9 19:14:27 2007 +++ dovecot-1.1.beta13.patched/src/lib-imap/imap-match.c Thu Jan 17 14:09:02 2008 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ struct imap_match_pattern *patterns; char sep; - char patterns_data[]; + char patterns_data[0]; }; Regards, KAM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sven Anderson" <sven@anderson.de> To: <dovecot@dovecot.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:57 AM Subject: [Dovecot] PATCH: compile dovecot-1.1.beta14 with gcc 2.95
Hi,
I patched dovecot-1.1.beta14 to compile under gcc 2.95. __builtin_expect and __attribute__((malloc)) are only available since gcc 3.0, and __builtin_types_compatible_p since 3.1.
Also the flexible array members (char a[]) are not available for gcc 2.95. So I replaced them with zero-extent arrays (char a[0]), which should also work, but that is gcc specific. A general pointer (char* a) should work as well, I guess.
I have attached a patch that fixes all this. It is for beta13 but also works on beta14.
BTW.: There is a typo in src/login-common/main.c, it's equivalent, not equilevant.
Cheers,
Sven
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