[gzip-1.3.13] getopt tool chain build problem and other new problems

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

I've successfully installed gzip-1.3.13 today on nearly 20 flavors of
Unix.

However, I'm getting failures on some platforms that I also saw today
in a test release of the zile editor that look like an error in the
getopt component of the GNU tool chain.

Specially, on Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel), FreeBSD 5.0 and 6.1,
NetBSD 1.6, I get compilation failure like this:

  CC     getopt.o
In file included from ./getopt.h:28,
                 from getopt.h:28,
                 from getopt.c:26:
/usr/include/getopt.h:53: error: redefinition of `struct rpl_option'
/usr/include/getopt.h:68: error: conflicting types for 'rpl_getopt_long'
./getopt.h:227: error: previous declaration of 'rpl_getopt_long' was here
/usr/include/getopt.h:68: error: conflicting types for 'rpl_getopt_long'
./getopt.h:227: error: previous declaration of 'rpl_getopt_long' was here

I can reproduce this with gcc-2.95.3, gcc-3.4.3, gcc-4.1, gcc-4.2,
gcc-4.3, gcc-4.4, and gcc-4.5, so it does not appear to be compiler
dependent.

On Solaris 7 SPARC, I get this failure with native cc:

  CC     getopt.o
In file included from ./getopt.h:28,
                 from getopt.h:28,
                 from getopt.c:26:
/usr/include/getopt.h:53: error: redefinition of `struct rpl_option'
/usr/include/getopt.h:68: error: conflicting types for 'rpl_getopt_long'
./getopt.h:227: error: previous declaration of 'rpl_getopt_long' was here
/usr/include/getopt.h:68: error: conflicting types for 'rpl_getopt_long'
./getopt.h:227: error: previous declaration of 'rpl_getopt_long' was here

Switching to gcc-2.95.3 produces a different failure:

  CC     lstat.o
In file included from lstat.c:43:
sys/stat.h:343: warning: `struct stat' declared inside parameter list
sys/stat.h:343: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want.
lstat.c:62: warning: `struct stat' declared inside parameter list
lstat.c:63: conflicting types for `rpl_lstat'
sys/stat.h:326: previous declaration of `rpl_lstat'
lstat.c: In function `rpl_lstat':
lstat.c:65: warning: passing arg 2 of `orig_lstat' from incompatible pointer type
lstat.c:76: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
lstat.c:84: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
lstat.c:89: warning: passing arg 2 of `rpl_stat' from incompatible pointer type

I have gzip-1.3.12 installed on all of these systems, so the problem
is new with 1.3.13.

Finally, please  eliminate the cryptic compilation reports like this:

  CC     frexpl.o
  CC     getopt.o
  CC     getopt1.o
  CC     isnanf.o

This is distinctly unhelpful, and covers up what is really happening.
make's normal output is what should be appearing, with the complete
compiler command.

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[Jim Meyering]

Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:

> I've successfully installed gzip-1.3.13 today on nearly 20 flavors of
> Unix.
>
> However, I'm getting failures on some platforms that I also saw today
> in a test release of the zile editor that look like an error in the
> getopt component of the GNU tool chain.
> Specially, on Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel), FreeBSD 5.0 and 6.1,
> NetBSD 1.6, I get compilation failure like this:
>
>   CC     getopt.o
> In file included from ./getopt.h:28,
>                  from getopt.h:28,
>                  from getopt.c:26:
> /usr/include/getopt.h:53: error: redefinition of `struct rpl_option'
> /usr/include/getopt.h:68: error: conflicting types for 'rpl_getopt_long'
> ./getopt.h:227: error: previous declaration of 'rpl_getopt_long' was here
> /usr/include/getopt.h:68: error: conflicting types for 'rpl_getopt_long'
> ./getopt.h:227: error: previous declaration of 'rpl_getopt_long' was here

Thanks for the report.
I think that's just been fixed via gnulib, so I may make a new release soon.

...

> Finally, please  eliminate the cryptic compilation reports like this:
>
>   CC     frexpl.o
>   CC     getopt.o
>   CC     getopt1.o
>   CC     isnanf.o
>
> This is distinctly unhelpful, and covers up what is really happening.
> make's normal output is what should be appearing, with the complete
> compiler command.

That's just the default.
You can get the old behavior via

    ./configure --enable-silent-rules ... && make

or
    ./configure ... && make V=1