Building Cyrus with GCC 4.0+ (Debian Etch), autoconf issues

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hello Bron,

Bron Gondwana wrote:
> I'm in the process of rebuilding all our packages to target Debian Etch
> rather than Debian Sarge so we can switch our infrastructure forwards
> once I'm happy it's all stable.
> 
> Our Cyrus build is one of the most tricky ones, so I thought I should
> compare config.h and the output of running configure under each system.
> 
> Imagine my surprise when I discovered that GCC 4.1.2 on Debian Etch didn't
> support either PIC or __attribute__!
> 
> Some searcing found:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/12/61
> http://lists.apple.com/archives/unix-porting/2005/Jul/msg00040.html
> 
> and many other descriptions, basically:
> 
> "This is because function prototype declarations in nested scopes are
>  no longer accepted. The fix is to remove redundant declarations, or
>  to move non-redundant ones to the top level."
> 
> The affected files that I can see (in my cyrus 2.3.8) are:
> 
> cmulocal/c-fpic.m4
> cmulocal/c-attribute.m4

I'm compiling on etch right now, but am not using --with=cmulocal, so I 
guess I don't have to worry?

Kind regards,

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