Re: Libidn 1.34 released

[Dennis Clarke]

On 31/03/18 12:00 PM, Tim Rühsen wrote:
<snip>
> Happy hacking,
> Tim

Thank you for this.

I was surprised to see an undefined symbol "alloca" in test 
libidn_toascii_fuzzer thus :


/opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/cc -D_STDC_C99= -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. 
-I../lib -I../lib -I../gl -I../gl 
-DSRCDIR=\"/usr/local/build/libidn-1.34_SunOS5.10_sparcv9.001/fuzz\" 
-DTEST_RUN -I/usr/local/include -D_TS_ERRNO -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 
-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT   -Wno-vla -m64 -xarch=sparc 
-xcache=generic -errwarn=%none -errhdr=%user -erroff=%none -errtags=yes 
-errfmt=error -errshort=full -xstrconst -xildoff -xmemalign=8s 
-xnolibmil -Xa -xcode=pic32 -xregs=no%appl -xlibmieee -mc -g -xs 
-ftrap=%none -Qy -xbuiltin=%none -xdebugformat=dwarf -xunroll=1 
-D_TS_ERRNO -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -c -o 
main.o main.c
"main.c", line 90: warning: implicit function declaration: alloca 
(E_NO_IMPLICIT_DECL_ALLOWED)
"main.c", line 90: warning: improper pointer/integer combination: op "=" 
(E_BAD_PTR_INT_COMBINATION)
/usr/local/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link 
/opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/cc -D_STDC_C99=   -Wno-vla -m64 
-xarch=sparc -xcache=generic -errwarn=%none -errhdr=%user -erroff=%none 
-errtags=yes -errfmt=error -errshort=full -xstrconst -xildoff 
-xmemalign=8s -xnolibmil -Xa -xcode=pic32 -xregs=no%appl -xlibmieee -mc 
-g -xs -ftrap=%none -Qy -xbuiltin=%none -xdebugformat=dwarf -xunroll=1 
-D_TS_ERRNO -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -no-install 
-L/usr/local/lib -o libidn_toascii_fuzzer libidn_toascii_fuzzer.o main.o 
../lib/libidn.la
libtool: link: /opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/cc -D_STDC_C99= -Wno-vla 
-m64 -xarch=sparc -xcache=generic -errwarn=%none -errhdr=%user 
-erroff=%none -errtags=yes -errfmt=error -errshort=full -xstrconst 
-xildoff -xmemalign=8s -xnolibmil -Xa -xcode=pic32 -xregs=no%appl 
-xlibmieee -mc -g -xs -ftrap=%none -Qy -xbuiltin=%none 
-xdebugformat=dwarf -xunroll=1 -D_TS_ERRNO -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 
-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -o libidn_toascii_fuzzer libidn_toascii_fuzzer.o 
main.o  -L/usr/local/lib ../lib/.libs/libidn.so 
/usr/local/lib/libintl.so -lc /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so 
-R/usr/local/build/libidn-1.34_SunOS5.10_sparcv9.001/lib/.libs 
-R/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
alloca                              main.o
ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors. No output written to 
libidn_toascii_fuzzer
gmake[2]: *** [libidn_toascii_fuzzer] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/build/libidn-1.34_SunOS5.10_sparcv9.001/fuzz'
gmake[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/local/build/libidn-1.34_SunOS5.10_sparcv9.001/fuzz'
gmake: *** [check-recursive] Error 1

That happens on ye Solaris 10 sparc whereas on Debian sid PowerPC64 
there are no issues at all.  Perhaps a gnuified glibc issue ?

Dennis