Bug 2434693

Summary: kafs-client: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f44
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Fedora Release Engineering <releng>
Component: kafs-clientAssignee: David Howells <dhowells>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Fedora Release Engineering 2026-01-28 21:08:00 UTC 
kafs-client failed to build from source in Fedora rawhide/f44

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=141163307


For details on the mass rebuild see:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild
Please fix kafs-client 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,
kafs-client will be orphaned. Before branching of Fedora 45,
kafs-client 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 2026-01-28 21:08:06 UTC 
Created attachment 2125981 [details]
build.log
Comment 2 Fedora Release Engineering 2026-01-28 21:08:12 UTC 
Created attachment 2125982 [details]
root.log

file root.log too big, will only attach last 32768 bytes
Comment 3 Fedora Release Engineering 2026-01-28 21:08:15 UTC 
Created attachment 2125983 [details]
state.log
Comment 4 David Howells 2026-02-03 08:46:53 UTC 
gcc reports:

lib_cellserv.c: In function ‘cellserv_parse_address’:
lib_cellserv.c:72:19: error: assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
   72 |                 p = strchr(v, ']');
      |                   ^

The problem is here:

	if (v[0] == '[') {
		char *p;

		v++;
		p = strchr(v, ']');
		if (!p || p[1])
			goto invalid;
		p[0] = 0;
	}

v is a const char *, so modifying the string is wrong - but strchr() discards the const.
Comment 5 David Howells 2026-03-06 15:16:48 UTC 
Proposed update, including this fix, posted here:
https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-afs/2026-March/010687.html