Re: F40 proposal: Porting Fedora to Modern C (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 11:09 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> There will be a few generic issues in build tools that when address
> fix multiple packages

	Hi,
I've been interested in a check of a project I maintain and I stopped
very soon on Fedora 37 with

gcc-12.2.1-2.fc37.x86_64
glibc-2.36-4.fc37.x86_64
libdb-5.3.28-53.fc37.x86_64

When I try to compile this simple program:

  #include <db.h>
  int main(void) { db_create(NULL, NULL, 0); return 0; }

(which is part of the project's "can build" test to verify the thing is
properly installed in the system) using:

   gcc -Wall -Wextra test.c -o test -ldb

then it doesn't claim anything and succeeds, but when I compile it as:

   gcc -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra test.c -o test -ldb

I get an error:

   In file included from test.c:1:
   /usr/include/db.h:1098:9: error: unknown type name ‘u_int’

and tons of related warning/error lines generated by gcc.

Looking into the db.h file, it has there a comment that it can add the
`u_int`, when the system doesn't provide it, but that related block is
empty in Fedora. More interestingly, even when I add `#define
__USE_MISC 1` at the very top of the program, thus the
/usr/include/sys/types.h should declare also `typedef __u_int u_int;`,
the type is still unknown and the compilation aborts. Something
declares __u_char_defined before the sys/types.h gets to it, it seems.

A fix might be done on the libdb's db.h or elsewhere?

I may face more similar or totally different issues while I progress
with my compilation attempt (until I give up), and I'm not going to
spam this list with it. I do understand these things need to be
addressed individually, which makes perfect sense. Where it would be is
harder to guess for me.
	Bye,
	Milan
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