bug#62723: closed (autogen fails to build on i686-linux)

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Your message dated Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:58:29 +0200
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and subject line Re: Fix for librsvg 2.40 on core-updates
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #62723,
regarding autogen fails to build on i686-linux
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> autogen fails to build on i686-linux
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> Sat, 8 Apr 2023 12:13:20 +0200
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> Hello,
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> autogen fails to build on i686-linux like so, for instance on master commit
> c9af27d4ca733b20f09019f1465d3e5fdc1ec724:
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> libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I.. -I../autoopts 
> -DPKGDATADIR=\"/gnu/store/n29inqv3rnwix1jqsxc1gd2yw0q8jkr0-autogen-5.18.16/share/autogen\"
>  -g -O2 -Wno-format-contains-nul -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Werror 
> -Wcast-align -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes 
> -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-aliasing=3 -Wextra -Wno-cast-qual -g -O2 
> -Wno-format-contains-nul -fno-strict-aliasing -c libopts.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o 
> .libs/libopts_la-libopts.o
> In file included from libopts.c:48:
> usage.c: In function ‘prt_extd_usage.isra’:
> usage.c:736:38: error: ‘s ’ directive output may be truncated writing 2 bytes 
> into a region of size between 0 and 9 [-Werror=format-truncation=]
>   736 |         snprintf(vfmt, sizeof(vfmt), vfmtfmt, (unsigned int)nmlen + 4);
>       |                                      ^~~~~~~
> usage.c:736:9: note: ‘snprintf’ output between 9 and 18 bytes into a 
> destination of size 12
>   736 |         snprintf(vfmt, sizeof(vfmt), vfmtfmt, (unsigned int)nmlen + 4);
>       |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
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> The version we package from
>    https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autogen/
> dates from 2018. The website
>    https://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/
> has apparently not been updated since 2015.
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> I wonder if we had not better drop this apparently unmaintained software,
> but it has quite a lot of dependents:
> Building the following 1275 packages would ensure 2489 dependent packages are 
> rebuilt
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> Andreas
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> Re: Fix for librsvg 2.40 on core-updates
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> Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:58:29 +0200
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> Am Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 07:00:16PM +0000 schrieb Kaelyn:
> > I just mailed https://issues.guix.gnu.org/62758 to add a snippet to fix the 
> > build error. I used a similar approach as the existing snippet for fixing a 
> > format overflow error. (I also forgot to set the subject prefix to "PATCH 
> > core-updates" on the git send-mail command line.).
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> Thanks a lot, this looks like a good fix. I have just pushed it.
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> Andreas
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