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Bug 2124810 - the motif libraries are not compiled with the LONG_BIT being set
Summary: the motif libraries are not compiled with the LONG_BIT being set
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: motif
Version: 8.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: All
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Olivier Fourdan
QA Contact: Tomas Pelka
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 2125560
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-09-07 07:29 UTC by Francisco Peralta
Modified: 2023-05-16 08:53 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: motif-2.3.4-19.el8
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Clone Of:
: 2125560 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2023-05-16 08:16:29 UTC
Type: Bug
Target Upstream Version:
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-133399 0 None None None 2022-09-07 07:40:13 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2023:2756 0 None None None 2023-05-16 08:16:32 UTC

Internal Links: 2125560 2149727

Description Francisco Peralta 2022-09-07 07:29:56 UTC
Description of problem:
Currently compiled and RPM packaged in RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 Motif libraries have the problem of LONG_BIT not being defined.
For instance /lib64/libXm.so is a 64-bit shared library but it seems not to be built with LONG_BIT == 64.

The problem is with Motif code (upstream) actually.

Even with "#include <limits.h>" added, LONG_BIT is still not defined *unless* you add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE to the build command line.

But if you do so, the build fails because caddr_t (an old BSD'ism) is not defined. So to build properly, we need two things:

1. Define _XOPEN_SOURCE where LONG_BIT is used
2. Replace caddr_t 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Motif-library (/lib64/libXm.so.4.0.4)
In motif-2.3.4-16.el8.x86_64.rpm etc.

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

The error message on RHEL 7 and 8 was: _XtGetStringValues: bad size 8
Tracing it back in the Motif source we found::
static void _XtGetStringValues(Widget w, Arg *warg, int numargs)
{
    ...
    switch (res->resource_size)
    {
        case 1:
        ...
        case 2:
        ...
        case 4:
        ...
#if (LONG_BIT == 64)
        case 8:
        ...
#endif
        default:
           fprintf(stderr, "_XtGetStringValues: bad size %d\n", res->resource_size);
            string = "bad size";
            ...
    }
}


Expected results:

Libraries to be compiled with LONG_BIT set to 64.

Additional info:

Customer Case NR: 03305642
SO discussion: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15817380/long-bit-in-limits-h

Comment 3 Olivier Fourdan 2022-09-09 10:10:39 UTC
Awaiting confirmation that the proposed fix addresses the issue.

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-16 08:16:29 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (motif bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:2756


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