Hi Rueben,
Do you think you could create a new GNU hello release? The current
package can't build on glibc-2.43 with an error like this [1]:
In file included from /usr/include/features.h:540,
from /usr/include/bits/libc-header-start.h:33,
from /usr/include/stdlib.h:26,
from lib/stdlib.h:51,
from lib/xalloc.h:29,
from lib/xalloc-die.c:21:
lib/stdlib.h:827:20: error: expected identifier or '(' before '_Generic'
827 | _GL_EXTERN_C void *bsearch (const void *__key,
| ^~~~~~~
lib/string.h:777:20: error: expected identifier or '(' before '_Generic'
777 | _GL_EXTERN_C void *memchr (const void *__s, int __c, size_t __n)
| ^~~~~~
make[2]: * [Makefile:4633: lib/libhello_a-xalloc-die.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
'/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/hello-2.12.2/work/hello-2.12.2'
make[1]: * [Makefile:4950: all-recursive] Error 1
make: * [Makefile:2624: all] Error 2
The current Gnulib submodule already has commit
df17f4f37ed3ca373d23ad42eae51122bdb96626 which fixes it.
I hadn't realized that GNU hello was affected by this, like coreutils,
m4, etc. were otherwise I would have mentioned it earlier.
Perhaps a news entry something like this would be good as well:
Ported to glibc-2.43 which implements functions such as strchr as
macros which conflict with Gnulib files used in previous releases.
I also pushed the attatched patch to fix another bug reported on
Savannah [2].
[1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67961
[2] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68030
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Message-ID: <374015edfdfa97bced6da81f066cd18797a39573.1770610935.git.collin.fu...@gmail.com>
From: Collin Funk <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2026 20:11:31 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] doc: don't document short options for --help and --version
These were removed in commit e8e46123cfe62170a2f7f79db6b471b66ae36947.
Reported by Lorenzo Lomartire in
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68030>.
* doc/hello.texi (Invoking hello): Don't list the unsupported -h and -v
short options.
---
NEWS | 2 ++
doc/hello.texi | 4 ----
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cb7a939..80a9af8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ GNU Hello NEWS -*- outline -*-
* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+The manual no longer mentions the -h and -v short options which were
+removed in release 2.11.
* Noteworthy changes in release 2.12.2 (2025-05-19) [stable]
diff --git a/doc/hello.texi b/doc/hello.texi
index e3a2353..923c67b 100644
--- a/doc/hello.texi
+++ b/doc/hello.texi
@@ -234,9 +234,7 @@ @node Invoking hello
Output @var{text} instead of the default greeting.
@item --help
-@itemx -h
@opindex --help
-@opindex -h
Print an informative help message on standard output and exit
successfully.
@@ -257,9 +255,7 @@ @node Invoking hello
Output the traditional greeting message @samp{hello, world}.
@item --version
-@itemx -v
@opindex --version
-@opindex -v
Print the version number and licensing information of Hello on
standard output and then exit successfully.
--
2.53.0
