Bug 1984045

Summary: postfix: FTBFS due to closefrom declaration conflict (glibc 2.34 related)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: postfixAssignee: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: František Hrdina <fhrdina>
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Last Closed: 2021-12-07 21:44:43 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Florian Weimer 2021-07-20 13:51:32 UTC
postfix-3.5.9-9.el9 fails to rebuild with this compiler error:

gcc -I. -I../../include -fPIC -fcommon -DHAS_LDAP -DLDAP_DEPRECATED=1 -DUSE_LDAP_SASL -DHAS_LMDB -DHAS_PCRE -I/usr/include/pcre -DHAS_MYSQL -I/usr/include/mysql -DHAS_PGSQL -I/usr/include/pgsql -DHAS_SQLITE -DHAS_CDB -DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_CYRUS_SASL -I/usr/include/sasl -DUSE_TLS -DDEF_CONFIG_DIR=\"/etc/postfix\" -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DNO_NIS -DHAS_DEV_URANDOM -DUSE_DYNAMIC_LIBS -DUSE_DYNAMIC_MAPS -Wmissing-prototypes -Wformat -Wno-comment -fcommon -fPIC  -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m32 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -mstackrealign -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-comment -I. -DLINUX4 -c attr_print0.c
In file included from attr_clnt.c:88:
/usr/include/unistd.h:363:13: error: conflicting types for 'closefrom'; have 'void(int)'
  363 | extern void closefrom (int __lowfd) __THROW;
      |             ^~~~~~~~~
In file included from attr_clnt.c:87:
./sys_defs.h:1512:12: note: previous declaration of 'closefrom' with type 'int(int)'
 1512 | extern int closefrom(int);
      |            ^~~~~~~~~


closefrom is a new function in glibc 2.34. It follows the Solaris precedent, so it returns void (not int). At the minimum, Postfix needs to adjust its return type. The only caller of the function does not use the returned value anyway.

Comment 1 Jaroslav Škarvada 2021-08-02 22:08:44 UTC
Already fixed in Fedora and notified upstream.