Re: Error while building the devel branch: relocatable.c:31: error: expected identifier or '(' at end of input

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/30/24 4:13 AM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 06:08:22PM +0300, Yuri Kanivetsky wrote:
> > (...)
> > Can you explain what exactly is happening here? Is it an issue with
> > bash, fortify-headers or anything else? Judging from the `gcc -E`
> > output it looks like preprocessed relocatable.c ends with
> > __extension__, which is... an error? Is it because `#include_next
> > <stdlib.h>` produces no output? Why?
>
> The problem seems to be the inclusion order of system headers on Alpine Linux.
> If "wchar.h" is included prior to "stdlib.h", the '#include_next' directive for
> "stdlib.h" produces no output.

Yes, that seems like an Alpine or musl/fortify problem. There's no
requirement that an application include anything (or not) before stdlib.h
or wchar.h. The system just needs to ensure that all the necessary symbols
are defined.

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