CVS 2.2 no longer compilable under Red Hat 7.3?

[Ken Murchison]

If you've just done a CVS update and expect to compile, its not going to
happen (too many things have changed).  Try:

make distclean
rm configure
sh SMakefile
./configure ...
make


Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> 
> Something in CVS 2.2 changed since 26 Sept 2002 that apparently makes
> for trouble compiling it under Red Hat 7.3.
> 
> (1) The first issue is probably just the a lack of a #include
> <mkgmtime.h> before using a struct tm in lib/mkgmtime.c (make output
> at end of message).  There is a similar omission (of #include
> <gmtoff.h>) in lib/gmtoff_tm.c as well.  Why wouldn't a .c file
> include its own .h file?  Must be an 'in progress' minor buglet.
> 
> (2) Hacking those in gets me slightly further, but then I get
> 
>     gcc -c -I..  -I/usr/include/et -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -Wall -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -fPIC \
>     cyrusdb.c
>     cyrusdb.c: In function `cyrusdb_init':
>     cyrusdb.c:77: `FNAME_DBDIR' undeclared (first use in this function)
>     cyrusdb.c:77: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>     cyrusdb.c:77: for each function it appears in.)
>     make: *** [cyrusdb.o] Error 1
> 
> which I have not (yet?) figured out.  FNAME_DBDIR is defined in
> acconfig.h but nowhere else.  Hacking its value (of "/db") into the
> end of lib/cyrusdb.h gets me further... but I know that's a bad
> approach!  Do I have an underlying autoconf or configure problem?
> 
> (3) Even then, I soon get something about MASTER_PIDFILE in master.c ...
> 
> Is CVS for 2.2 currently intentionally unusable?  If so, when is it
> likely to become reasonably safe to grab and use once more?
> 
> Or, am I just being (even) more dense than usual?  If so, help getting
> the current CVS tree to compile would be welcomed :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> PS.  There is also an issue with the search for libdes failing if I
> try to compile with Kerberos support, which I think is an older issue
> that has returned to haunt me?  RH 7.3 lacks a libdes.a library, the
> needed functions are in libdes425.a instead.  Looks like the configure
> checks got stricter, and now break on RH 7.3, though in September they
> worked OK?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jonathan/cyrus-imapd-2.2/lib'
> gcc -c -I..   -I/usr/local/include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -Wall -g -O2 \
> acl.c
> gcc -c -I..   -I/usr/local/include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -Wall -g -O2 \
> assert.c
> gcc -c -I..   -I/usr/local/include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -Wall -g -O2 \
> bsearch.c
> gcc -c -I..   -I/usr/local/include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -Wall -g -O2 \
> charset.c
> gcc -c -I..   -I/usr/local/include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -Wall -g -O2 \
> glob.c
> gcc -c -I..   -I/usr/local/include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -Wall -g -O2 \
> retry.c
> gcc -c -I..   -I/usr/local/include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -Wall -g -O2 \
> util.c
> gcc -c -I..   -I/usr/local/include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -Wall -g -O2 \
> libcyr_cfg.c
> gcc -c -I..   -I/usr/local/include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -Wall -g -O2 \
> mkgmtime.c
> mkgmtime.c: In function `tmcomp':
> mkgmtime.c:102: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> mkgmtime.c:102: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> mkgmtime.c:103: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> mkgmtime.c:103: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> mkgmtime.c:104: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> mkgmtime.c:104: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> mkgmtime.c:105: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> mkgmtime.c:105: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> mkgmtime.c:106: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> mkgmtime.c:106: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> mkgmtime.c:107: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> mkgmtime.c:107: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> mkgmtime.c:100: warning: `result' might be used uninitialized in this function
> mkgmtime.c: In function `mkgmtime':
> mkgmtime.c:119: storage size of `yourtm' isn't known
> mkgmtime.c:121: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> mkgmtime.c:137: warning: implicit declaration of function `gmtime'
> mkgmtime.c:137: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> mkgmtime.c:119: warning: unused variable `yourtm'
> mkgmtime.c:117: warning: `saved_seconds' might be used uninitialized in this function
> make[1]: *** [mkgmtime.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jonathan/cyrus-imapd-2.2/lib'
> make: *** [all] Error 1

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