Hello users of Dovecot!

Currently, Dovecot 2.3.21.1 compiles and runs fine on a Red Hat Linux clone with GCC 8.3.1. Now tried the brandnew sources of Dovecot 2.4.0, but to my surprise it doesn't even compile and I have no clue where to begin my debugging.

Besides some minor things (new OpenSSL version check not working, maybe because not using proper include files; and one library is missing -lrt to use clock_gettime), I'm totally stuck at compiling the new "src/lib-http/http-server-settings.c".

It fails while including "src/lib/macros.h" with the message "error: size of unnamed array is negative"

Dovecot 2.3.21.1 has no http-server-settings.c but a very similar macros.h which everbody seems to be happy about. So what is it that happens while compiling http-server-settings.c to make GCC fail?

I ran "./configure" with just LDFLAGS="-lrt -Wl,--no-as-needed" added, and then simply "make". Nothing special here. I'm happy with all the default settings and auto-detected options.

Full log of compilation messages is appended at the end of this message.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Currently I have no idea where to even start my search for a workaround or even a solution. Never had such problems with compiling Dovecot so far.

Thanks a lot in advance ... Andreas

====================================================================== Compilation messages where the error occurs:

Making all in lib-http make[3]: Entering directory '/usr/local/src/dovecot-2.4.0/src/lib-http' CC http-server-settings.lo In file included from ../../src/lib/lib.h:37, from http-server-settings.c:3: ../../src/lib/lib.h: In function ‘time_to_uint32’: ../../src/lib/lib.h:145:14: warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘time_t’ {aka ‘long int’} and ‘unsigned int’ [-Wsign-compare] i_assert(ts <= UINT32_MAX); ^~ ../../src/lib/macros.h:198:45: note: in definition of macro ‘unlikely’ # define unlikely(expr) (__builtin_expect((expr) ? 1 : 0, 0) != 0) ^~~~ ../../src/lib/lib.h:145:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘i_assert’ i_assert(ts <= UINT32_MAX); ^~~~~~~~ In file included from http-server-settings.c:3: ../../src/lib/lib.h: In function ‘time_to_uint32_trunc’: ../../src/lib/lib.h:153:9: warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘time_t’ {aka ‘long int’} and ‘unsigned int’ [-Wsign-compare] if (ts > UINT32_MAX) ^ In file included from ../../src/lib/lib.h:37, from http-server-settings.c:3: http-server-settings.c: At top level: ../../src/lib/macros.h:173:14: error: size of unnamed array is negative (sizeof(char[1 - 2 * ((condition) ? 1 : 0)]) > 0 ? FALSE : FALSE) ^ ../../src/lib/macros.h:182:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TRUE’ COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TRUE(
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../../src/lib-settings/settings-parser.h:78:27: note: in expansion of macro ‘COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TYPES_NOT_COMPATIBLE’ { .type = (_enum_type) + COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TYPES_NOT_COMPATIBLE(
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../../src/lib-settings/settings-parser.h:125:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_TYPE’ SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_TYPE(SET_SIZE, SET_FLAG_HIDDEN, uoff_t, key, name, struct_name) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http-server-settings.c:13:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_SIZE_HIDDEN’ SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_##type("http_server_"#name, name, struct http_server_settings) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http-server-settings.c:34:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘DEF’ DEF(SIZE_HIDDEN, socket_send_buffer_size), ^~~ ../../src/lib/macros.h:173:14: error: size of unnamed array is negative (sizeof(char[1 - 2 * ((condition) ? 1 : 0)]) > 0 ? FALSE : FALSE) ^ ../../src/lib/macros.h:182:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TRUE’ COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TRUE(
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../../src/lib-settings/settings-parser.h:78:27: note: in expansion of macro ‘COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TYPES_NOT_COMPATIBLE’ { .type = (_enum_type) + COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TYPES_NOT_COMPATIBLE(
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../../src/lib-settings/settings-parser.h:125:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_TYPE’ SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_TYPE(SET_SIZE, SET_FLAG_HIDDEN, uoff_t, key, name, struct_name) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http-server-settings.c:13:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_SIZE_HIDDEN’ SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_##type("http_server_"#name, name, struct http_server_settings) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http-server-settings.c:35:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘DEF’ DEF(SIZE_HIDDEN, socket_recv_buffer_size), ^~~ make[3]: *** [Makefile:1007: http-server-settings.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/dovecot-2.4.0/src/lib-http' make[2]: *** [Makefile:587: all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/dovecot-2.4.0/src' make[1]: *** [Makefile:725: all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/dovecot-2.4.0' make: *** [Makefile:567: all] Error 2