Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 186583
sendmail-8.13.6-1.src.rpm build fails on old systems
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:28 EST
Description of problem: sendmail-8.13.6-1.src.rpm does not compile on Red Hat 9, Fedora Core 1 nor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 sendmail.spec has been modified following: %define with_sasl1 yes %define with_sasl2 no %define enable_pie no %define old_setup yes Above changes enables building with sendmail-8.13.3-1.src.rpm Build stops with following error message: Making in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/sendmail-8.13.6/obj.Linux.2.4.22- 1.2199.nptl.i686/libmilter cc `-O2 -g -march=i386 -mcpu=i686' -I. -I../../sendmail -I../../include - I/usr/include/db4 -I/usr/kerberos/include -Wall -DXDEBUG=0 -DTCPWRAPPERS - DNETINET6 -DHES_GETMAILHOST -DUSE_VENDOR_CF_PATH=1 - D_FFR_WORKAROUND_BROKEN_NAMESERVERS -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL -DSASL=1 - D_FFR_UNSAFE_SASL -DSM_CONF_LDAP_MEMFREE=1 -DNOT_SENDMAIL - Dsm_snprintf=snprintf -D_FFR_MILTER_ROOT_UNSAFE -D_REENTRANT -DXP_MT -c -o main.o main.c /bin/sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' /bin/sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file make: *** [main.o] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.93020 (%build) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.13.3-1 works 8.13.5 and forward doesn't work How reproducible: Reproduced in Red Hat 9, Fedora Core 1 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Steps to Reproduce: 1. download and install src.rpm 2. modify sendmail.spec 3. rpmbuild -ba sendmail.spec Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Resolution found. Change sendmail.spec confOPTIMIZE value back to pre 8.13.3- 1.1 setting: define(\`confOPTIMIZE', \`${RPM_OPT_FLAGS}') Resolution verified with Fedora Core 1 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Change of confOPTIMIZE value does not affect Fedora Core 4 ability to build sendmail-8.13.6-1.src.rpm sendmail.spec changelog has following entry: * Tue Mar 1 2005 Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> 8.13.3-1.1 - fixed gcc4 build: use double quotes for confOPTIMIZE to avoid m4 confusion with ',' That fix apparently broke the srpm for systems using gcc3.
Red Hat Linux 9 and Fedora Core < 4 are deprecated since longer time now and shouldn't be used anywhere except with Fedora Legacy. What you're trying to do is heavily unsupported. And Red Hat Enterprise Linux was never and will never be a playground system for such obvious backports. Therefore suggesting to close with WONTFIX/DEFERRED.