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and subject line Bug#1128763: fixed in links2 2.29-2.1
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regarding links2: FTBFS with glibc 2.43 due to ISO C23 const return types
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Source: links2
Version: 2.29-2
Severity: important
Tags: ftbfs upstream
Justification: fails to build from source
User: [email protected]
Usertags: glibc-2.43
Dear maintainer(s),
links2 fails to build from source with glibc 2.43, currently in
experimental. From the build log:
| ../ftp.c: In function ‘got_something_from_data_connection’:
| ../ftp.c:771:99: error: assignment of read-only location ‘*(const char
*)strchr((const char *)ud, 1)’
| 771 | if (strchr(cast_const_char ud, POST_CHAR))
*strchr(cast_const_char ud, POST_CHAR) = 0;
| |
^
| ../compress.c: In function ‘decode_zstd’:
| ../compress.c:390:17: warning: ‘ZSTD_getDecompressedSize’ is deprecated
[-Wdeprecated-declarations]
| 390 | dec_size = ZSTD_getDecompressedSize(f->data,
f->length);
| | ^~~~~~~~
| In file included from ../compress.c:357:
| /usr/include/zstd.h:214:32: note: declared here
| 214 | ZSTDLIB_API unsigned long long ZSTD_getDecompressedSize(const void*
src, size_t srcSize);
| | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| make[2]: *** [Makefile:604: ftp.o] Error 1
| make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
| ../svg.c: In function ‘svg_finish’:
| ../svg.c:154:9: warning: ‘rsvg_handle_get_dimensions’ is deprecated: Use
'rsvg_handle_get_intrinsic_size_in_pixels' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
| 154 | rsvg_handle_get_dimensions(deco->handle, &dim);
| | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| In file included from ../svg.c:9:
| /usr/include/librsvg-2.0/librsvg/rsvg.h:666:6: note: declared here
| 666 | void rsvg_handle_get_dimensions (RsvgHandle *handle,
RsvgDimensionData *dimension_data);
| | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| ../svg.c:181:9: warning: ‘rsvg_handle_render_cairo’ is deprecated: Use
'rsvg_handle_render_document' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
| 181 | rsvg_handle_render_cairo(deco->handle, cairo);
| | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| In file included from /usr/include/librsvg-2.0/librsvg/rsvg.h:1334:
| /usr/include/librsvg-2.0/librsvg/rsvg-cairo.h:90:10: note: declared here
| 90 | gboolean rsvg_handle_render_cairo (RsvgHandle *handle, cairo_t *cr);
| | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| make[2]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/links2-2.29/build-links2'
| dh_auto_install: error: cd build-links2 && make -j128 install
DESTDIR=/build/reproducible-path/links2-2.29/debian/tmp AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no
returned exit code 2
| make[1]: *** [debian/rules:41: override_dh_auto_install] Error 25
| make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/links2-2.29'
| make: *** [debian/rules:19: binary] Error 2
| 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/links2_arm64.build
[2]
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;h=e271fb2e4d76903c77a302aaec1ca22ce31027d0;hb=f762ccf84f122d1354f103a151cba8bde797d521#l19
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[email protected] http://aurel32.net
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: links2
Source-Version: 2.29-2.1
Done: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
links2, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> (supplier of updated links2 package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing [email protected])
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:19:43 +0300
Source: links2
Architecture: source
Version: 2.29-2.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Axel Beckert <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
Closes: 1128763
Changes:
links2 (2.29-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Non-maintainer upload.
* Fix FTBFS with glibc 2.43. (Closes: #1128763)
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