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glibc 2.43 to unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #1128737,
regarding patchutils: FTBFS with glibc 2.43 due to ISO C23 const return types
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: patchutils
Version: 0.4.3-1
Severity: important
Tags: ftbfs upstream
Justification: fails to build from source
User: [email protected]
Usertags: glibc-2.43
Dear maintainer(s),
patchutils fails to build from source with glibc 2.43, currently in
experimental. From the build log:
| gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_GNU_SOURCE
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-conversion -Wno-float-equal
-Wno-sign-compare -Wno-undef -Wno-unused-function -Wno-unused-parameter
-Wno-float-conversion -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wno-pedantic -Wno-sign-conversion
-Wno-type-limits -Wno-unused-const-variable -Wno-unsuffixed-float-constants
-Wno-error -g -O2 -Werror=implicit-function-declaration
-ffile-prefix-map=/build/reproducible-path/patchutils-0.4.3=.
-fstack-protector-strong -fstack-clash-protection -Wformat
-Werror=format-security -mbranch-protection=standard -Wall -c -o
libgnu_a-malloca.o `test -f 'malloca.c' || echo './'`malloca.c
...
| In file included from /usr/include/features.h:539,
| from
/usr/include/aarch64-linux-gnu/bits/libc-header-start.h:33,
| from /usr/include/stdlib.h:26,
| from ./stdlib.h:51,
| from malloca.h:29,
| from malloca.c:22:
| ./stdlib.h:814:20: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘_Generic’
| 814 | _GL_EXTERN_C void *bsearch (const void *__key,
| | ^~~~~~~
| In file included from /usr/include/features.h:539,
| from
/usr/include/aarch64-linux-gnu/bits/libc-header-start.h:33,
| from /usr/include/stdlib.h:26,
| from ./stdlib.h:51,
| from fd-hook.c:23:
| ./stdlib.h:814:20: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘_Generic’
| 814 | _GL_EXTERN_C void *bsearch (const void *__key,
| | ^~~~~~~
| In file included from /usr/include/features.h:539,
| from
/usr/include/aarch64-linux-gnu/bits/libc-header-start.h:33,
| from /usr/include/stdlib.h:26,
| from ./stdlib.h:51,
| from getprogname.c:20:
| ./stdlib.h:814:20: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘_Generic’
| 814 | _GL_EXTERN_C void *bsearch (const void *__key,
| | ^~~~~~~
| In file included from /usr/include/features.h:539,
| from
/usr/include/aarch64-linux-gnu/bits/libc-header-start.h:33,
| from /usr/include/stdlib.h:26,
| from ./stdlib.h:51,
| from stdlib.c:21:
| ./stdlib.h:814:20: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘_Generic’
| 814 | _GL_EXTERN_C void *bsearch (const void *__key,
| | ^~~~~~~
| In file included from /usr/include/features.h:539,
| from /usr/include/aarch64-linux-gnu/sys/types.h:25,
| from ./sys/types.h:46,
| from ./fcntl.h:63,
| from fcntl.c:23:
| ./stdlib.h:814:20: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘_Generic’
| 814 | _GL_EXTERN_C void *bsearch (const void *__key,
| | ^~~~~~~
| make[4]: *** [Makefile:1726: libgnu_a-malloca.o] Error 1
| make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
| make[4]: *** [Makefile:1600: libgnu_a-fd-hook.o] Error 1
| make[4]: *** [Makefile:1698: libgnu_a-getprogname.o] Error 1
| make[4]: *** [Makefile:1838: libgnu_a-stdlib.o] Error 1
| make[4]: *** [Makefile:1586: libgnu_a-fcntl.o] Error 1
| make[4]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/patchutils-0.4.3/lib'
| make[3]: *** [Makefile:1931: all-recursive] Error 1
| make[3]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/patchutils-0.4.3/lib'
| make[2]: *** [Makefile:1403: all] Error 2
| make[2]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/patchutils-0.4.3/lib'
| make[1]: *** [Makefile:3925: lib/libgnu.a] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/patchutils-0.4.3'
| dh_auto_build: error: make -j128 returned exit code 2
| make: *** [debian/rules:16: binary] Error 25
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess failed with exit
status 2
The full build log is available here [1].
The issue is due to ISO C23 declaration of bsearch, memchr, strchr,
strpbrk, strrchr, strstr, wcschr, wcspbrk, wcsrchr, wcsstr and wmemchr,
which now returns a pointer to a const-qualified type when the input
argument is a pointer to a const-qualified type [2].
I would like to thanks Emanuele Rocca for doing the archive rebuild on
a fast arm64 server.
Regards
Aurelien
[1]
https://people.debian.org/~ema/glibc-2.43-rebuilds/output-1/patchutils_arm64.build
[2]
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;h=e271fb2e4d76903c77a302aaec1ca22ce31027d0;hb=f762ccf84f122d1354f103a151cba8bde797d521#l19
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Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
[email protected] http://aurel32.net
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.4.5-1
Hi,
On 2026-08-10 20:54, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 2:53 PM Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> wrote:
> > control: severity 1128737 serious
> >
> > With the upload of glibc 2.43 to unstable, the packages now FTBFS in
> > unstable, hence upgrading the severity to serious.
> I agree that patchutils 0.4.3 was FTBFS with glibc 2.43, but upstream
> released 0.4.5 meanwhile. It is already packaged and is in Sid +
> Forky. With this version I can not reproduce the FTBFS. Can you please
> double check?
I confirm I can reproduce the issue with patchutils 0.4.3, but not with
patchutils 0.4.5. Therefore the problem is indeed fixed in that version.
Closing the bug accordingly.
Regards
Aurelien
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[email protected] http://aurel32.net
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