Bug 2340220

Summary: ghostscript: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f42
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Fedora Release Engineering <releng>
Component: ghostscriptAssignee: Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: mjg, mosvald, rlescak, yselkowi, zdohnal
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Description Fedora Release Engineering 2025-01-22 19:44:33 UTC 
ghostscript failed to build from source in Fedora rawhide/f42

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=127961545


For details on the mass rebuild see:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild
Please fix ghostscript at your earliest convenience and set the bug's status to
ASSIGNED when you start fixing it. If the bug remains in NEW state for 8 weeks,
ghostscript will be orphaned. Before branching of Fedora 43,
ghostscript will be retired, if it still fails to build.

For more details on the FTBFS policy, please visit:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Fails_to_build_from_source_Fails_to_install/
Comment 1 Fedora Release Engineering 2025-01-22 19:44:36 UTC 
Created attachment 2069247 [details]
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Comment 2 Fedora Release Engineering 2025-01-22 19:44:37 UTC 
Created attachment 2069248 [details]
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Comment 3 Fedora Release Engineering 2025-01-22 19:44:39 UTC 
Created attachment 2069249 [details]
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Comment 4 Michael J Gruber 2025-01-22 20:33:34 UTC 
Apparantly, ghostscript was exempt frm the gcc 15 pretesting, or this would have been caught earlier.

I Tried fixing this the other day but gave up after a myriad of patches. ghostscript's codebase mixes int and bool in many places, has obsolete compariosn like >= 0 for some bool values which were a problem before (but not an error).

I also tried forcing an earlier C standard, but some part of the build process does not seem to pick up the flags. So far so bad.
Comment 5 Zdenek Dohnal 2025-02-11 15:02:15 UTC 
I'm on the way to try migrating the code -  the branch is here https://src.fedoraproject.org/fork/zdohnal/rpms/ghostscript/tree/gcc15-std23 .

If I don't finish that this week, I'll merge Yaakov's PR.
Comment 6 Zdenek Dohnal 2025-02-11 17:21:56 UTC 
The FTBFS blocks flatpaks, workaround PR merged https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ghostscript/c/02f4573 .
Comment 7 Zdenek Dohnal 2025-02-12 07:19:11 UTC 
In stable for F42 and F43 - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-2531a16517 and https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-03b50c29d0