I was able to apply the patch sane-ctype.h make did proceed until it stumbled again, this time probably related to that path to random.h file I substituted earlier. Any thoughts?
git-2.50.1# make -j 4
GIT_VERSION=2.50.1
* new build flags
* new link flags
CC base85.o
* new prefix flags
CC bisect.o
CC blame.o
CC blob.o
CC bloom.o
CC branch.o
CC bulk-checkin.o
CC bundle-uri.o
CC bundle.o
CC cache-tree.o
CC cbtree.o
CC chdir-notify.o
CC checkout.o
CC chunk-format.o
CC color.o
CC column.o
CC combine-diff.o
CC commit-graph.o
CC commit-reach.o
CC commit.o
CC common-exit.o
CC common-init.o
CC compat/nonblock.o
CC compat/obstack.o
CC compat/open.o
CC compat/terminal.o
CC compiler-tricks/not-constant.o
CC config.o
CC connect.o
CC connected.o
CC convert.o
CC copy.o
CC credential.o
CC csum-file.o
CC ctype.o
CC date.o
CC decorate.o
CC delta-islands.o
CC diagnose.o
CC diff-delta.o
CC diff-merges.o
CC diff-lib.o
CC diff-no-index.o
CC diff.o
CC diffcore-break.o
CC diffcore-delta.o
CC diffcore-order.o
CC diffcore-pickaxe.o
CC diffcore-rename.o
CC diffcore-rotate.o
CC dir-iterator.o
CC dir.o
CC editor.o
CC entry.o
CC environment.o
CC ewah/bitmap.o
CC ewah/ewah_bitmap.o
CC ewah/ewah_io.o
CC ewah/ewah_rlw.o
CC exec-cmd.o
CC fetch-negotiator.o
CC fetch-pack.o
CC fmt-merge-msg.o
CC fsck.o
CC fsmonitor.o
CC fsmonitor-ipc.o
CC fsmonitor-settings.o
CC gettext.o
CC git-zlib.o
CC gpg-interface.o
CC graph.o
CC grep.o
CC hash-lookup.o
CC hash.o
CC hashmap.o
GEN command-list.h
CC hex.o
CC hex-ll.o
CC hook.o
CC ident.o
CC json-writer.o
CC kwset.o
CC levenshtein.o
CC line-log.o
CC line-range.o
CC linear-assignment.o
CC list-objects-filter-options.o
CC list-objects-filter.o
CC list-objects.o
CC lockfile.o
CC log-tree.o
CC loose.o
CC ls-refs.o
CC mailinfo.o
CC mailmap.o
CC match-trees.o
CC mem-pool.o
CC merge-blobs.o
CC merge-ll.o
CC merge-ort.o
CC merge-ort-wrappers.o
CC merge.o
CC midx.o
CC midx-write.o
CC name-hash.o
CC negotiator/default.o
CC negotiator/noop.o
CC negotiator/skipping.o
CC notes-cache.o
CC notes-merge.o
CC notes-utils.o
CC notes.o
CC object-file-convert.o
CC object-file.o
CC object-name.o
CC object-store.o
CC object.o
CC oid-array.o
CC oidmap.o
CC oidset.o
CC oidtree.o
CC pack-bitmap-write.o
CC pack-bitmap.o
CC pack-check.o
CC pack-mtimes.o
CC pack-objects.o
CC pack-revindex.o
CC pack-write.o
CC packfile.o
CC pager.o
CC parallel-checkout.o
CC parse.o
CC parse-options-cb.o
CC parse-options.o
CC patch-delta.o
CC patch-ids.o
CC path.o
CC path-walk.o
CC pathspec.o
CC pkt-line.o
CC preload-index.o
CC pretty.o
CC prio-queue.o
CC progress.o
CC promisor-remote.o
CC prompt.o
CC protocol.o
CC protocol-caps.o
CC prune-packed.o
CC pseudo-merge.o
CC quote.o
CC range-diff.o
CC reachable.o
CC read-cache.o
CC rebase-interactive.o
CC rebase.o
CC ref-filter.o
CC reflog-walk.o
CC reflog.o
CC refs.o
CC refs/debug.o
CC refs/files-backend.o
CC refs/reftable-backend.o
CC refs/iterator.o
CC refs/packed-backend.o
CC refs/ref-cache.o
CC refspec.o
CC remote.o
CC replace-object.o
CC repo-settings.o
CC repository.o
CC rerere.o
CC reset.o
CC resolve-undo.o
CC revision.o
CC run-command.o
CC send-pack.o
CC sequencer.o
CC serve.o
CC server-info.o
CC setup.o
CC shallow.o
CC sideband.o
CC sigchain.o
CC sparse-index.o
CC split-index.o
CC stable-qsort.o
CC statinfo.o
CC strbuf.o
CC streaming.o
CC string-list.o
CC strmap.o
CC strvec.o
CC sub-process.o
CC submodule-config.o
CC submodule.o
CC symlinks.o
CC tag.o
CC tempfile.o
CC thread-utils.o
CC tmp-objdir.o
CC trace.o
CC trace2.o
CC trace2/tr2_cfg.o
CC trace2/tr2_cmd_name.o
CC trace2/tr2_ctr.o
CC trace2/tr2_dst.o
CC trace2/tr2_sid.o
CC trace2/tr2_sysenv.o
CC trace2/tr2_tbuf.o
CC trace2/tr2_tgt_event.o
CC trace2/tr2_tgt_normal.o
CC trace2/tr2_tgt_perf.o
CC trace2/tr2_tls.o
CC trace2/tr2_tmr.o
CC trailer.o
CC transport-helper.o
CC transport.o
CC tree-diff.o
CC tree-walk.o
CC tree.o
CC unpack-trees.o
CC upload-pack.o
CC url.o
CC urlmatch.o
CC usage.o
CC userdiff.o
CC utf8.o
CC varint.o
CC versioncmp.o
CC walker.o
CC wildmatch.o
CC worktree.o
CC wrapper.o
CC write-or-die.o
CC ws.o
wrapper.c: In function ‘csprng_bytes’:
wrapper.c:782:23: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘getrandom’; did you mean ‘srandom’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
782 | res = getrandom(p, len, 0);
| ^~~~~~~~~
| srandom
CC wt-status.o
CC xdiff-interface.o
CC unix-socket.o
CC unix-stream-server.o
CC compat/simple-ipc/ipc-shared.o
CC compat/simple-ipc/ipc-unix-socket.o
CC sha1dc_git.o
CC sha1dc/sha1.o
CC sha1dc/ubc_check.o
CC sha256/block/sha256.o
CC compat/linux/procinfo.o
CC compat/fopen.o
CC compat/strlcpy.o
CC compat/qsort_s.o
CC xdiff/xdiffi.o
CC xdiff/xemit.o
CC xdiff/xhistogram.o
CC xdiff/xmerge.o
CC xdiff/xpatience.o
CC xdiff/xprepare.o
CC xdiff/xutils.o
CC reftable/basics.o
CC reftable/error.o
CC reftable/block.o
CC reftable/blocksource.o
CC reftable/iter.o
CC reftable/merged.o
CC reftable/pq.o
CC reftable/record.o
CC reftable/stack.o
CC reftable/system.o
CC reftable/table.o
CC reftable/tree.o
CC reftable/writer.o
CC http-backend.o
CC imap-send.o
CC http.o
CC sh-i18n--envsubst.o
CC shell.o
CC http-walker.o
CC http-fetch.o
CC http-push.o
CC remote-curl.o
* new script parameters
* new perl-specific parameters
GEN git-p4
GEN git-instaweb
CC git.o
CC builtin/add.o
CC builtin/am.o
CC builtin/annotate.o
CC builtin/apply.o
CC builtin/archive.o
CC builtin/backfill.o
CC builtin/bisect.o
CC builtin/blame.o
CC builtin/branch.o
GEN hook-list.h
CC builtin/bundle.o
CC builtin/cat-file.o
CC builtin/check-attr.o
CC builtin/check-ignore.o
CC builtin/check-mailmap.o
CC builtin/check-ref-format.o
CC builtin/checkout--worker.o
CC builtin/checkout-index.o
CC builtin/checkout.o
CC builtin/clean.o
CC builtin/clone.o
CC builtin/column.o
CC builtin/commit-graph.o
CC builtin/commit-tree.o
CC builtin/commit.o
CC builtin/config.o
CC builtin/count-objects.o
CC builtin/credential-cache--daemon.o
CC builtin/credential-cache.o
CC builtin/credential-store.o
CC builtin/credential.o
CC builtin/describe.o
CC builtin/diagnose.o
CC builtin/diff-files.o
CC builtin/diff-index.o
CC builtin/diff-pairs.o
CC builtin/diff-tree.o
CC builtin/diff.o
CC builtin/difftool.o
CC builtin/fast-export.o
CC builtin/fast-import.o
CC builtin/fetch-pack.o
CC builtin/fetch.o
CC builtin/fmt-merge-msg.o
CC builtin/for-each-ref.o
CC builtin/for-each-repo.o
CC builtin/fsck.o
CC builtin/fsmonitor--daemon.o
CC builtin/gc.o
CC builtin/get-tar-commit-id.o
CC builtin/grep.o
CC builtin/hash-object.o
GEN config-list.h
CC builtin/hook.o
CC builtin/index-pack.o
CC builtin/init-db.o
CC builtin/interpret-trailers.o
CC builtin/log.o
CC builtin/ls-files.o
CC builtin/ls-remote.o
CC builtin/ls-tree.o
CC builtin/mailinfo.o
CC builtin/mailsplit.o
CC builtin/merge-base.o
CC builtin/merge-file.o
CC builtin/merge-index.o
CC builtin/merge-ours.o
CC builtin/merge-recursive.o
CC builtin/merge-tree.o
CC builtin/merge.o
CC builtin/mktag.o
CC builtin/mktree.o
CC builtin/multi-pack-index.o
CC builtin/mv.o
CC builtin/name-rev.o
CC builtin/notes.o
CC builtin/pack-objects.o
CC builtin/pack-redundant.o
CC builtin/pack-refs.o
CC builtin/patch-id.o
CC builtin/prune-packed.o
CC builtin/prune.o
CC builtin/pull.o
CC builtin/push.o
CC builtin/range-diff.o
CC builtin/read-tree.o
CC builtin/rebase.o
CC builtin/receive-pack.o
CC builtin/reflog.o
CC builtin/refs.o
CC builtin/remote-ext.o
CC builtin/remote-fd.o
CC builtin/remote.o
CC builtin/repack.o
CC builtin/replace.o
CC builtin/replay.o
CC builtin/rerere.o
CC builtin/reset.o
CC builtin/rev-list.o
CC builtin/rev-parse.o
CC builtin/revert.o
CC builtin/rm.o
CC builtin/send-pack.o
CC builtin/shortlog.o
CC builtin/show-branch.o
CC builtin/show-index.o
CC builtin/show-ref.o
CC builtin/sparse-checkout.o
CC builtin/stash.o
CC builtin/stripspace.o
CC builtin/submodule--helper.o
CC builtin/symbolic-ref.o
CC builtin/tag.o
CC builtin/unpack-file.o
CC builtin/unpack-objects.o
CC builtin/update-index.o
CC builtin/update-ref.o
CC builtin/update-server-info.o
CC builtin/upload-archive.o
CC builtin/upload-pack.o
CC builtin/var.o
CC builtin/verify-commit.o
CC builtin/verify-pack.o
CC builtin/verify-tag.o
CC builtin/worktree.o
CC builtin/write-tree.o
GEN git-mergetool--lib
GEN git-sh-i18n
GEN git-sh-setup
CC scalar.o
CC daemon.o
CC common-main.o
CC abspath.o
CC add-interactive.o
CC add-patch.o
CC advice.o
CC alias.o
CC alloc.o
CC apply.o
CC archive-tar.o
CC archive-zip.o
CC archive.o
CC attr.o
CC help.o
GEN version-def.h
AR xdiff/lib.a
AR reftable/libreftable.a
GEN git-difftool--helper
GEN git-filter-branch
GEN git-merge-octopus
GEN git-merge-one-file
GEN git-merge-resolve
GEN git-mergetool
GEN git-quiltimport
GEN git-request-pull
GEN git-submodule
GEN git-web--browse
GEN GIT-PERL-HEADER
CC builtin/bugreport.o
CC builtin/help.o
CC version.o
GEN git-archimport
GEN git-cvsexportcommit
GEN git-cvsimport
GEN git-cvsserver
GEN git-send-email
GEN git-svn
AR libgit.a
LINK git-http-backend
LINK git-imap-send
LINK git-sh-i18n--envsubst
LINK git-daemon
/usr/local/bin/ld: warning: libssl.so.3, needed by /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so, may conflict with libssl.so.10
/usr/local/bin/ld: warning: libcrypto.so.3, needed by /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so, may conflict with libcrypto.so.10
/usr/local/bin/ld: libgit.a(wrapper.o): in function `csprng_bytes':
/root/git-2.50.1/wrapper.c:782: undefined reference to `getrandom'
/usr/local/bin/ld: /root/git-2.50.1/wrapper.c:782: undefined reference to `getrandom'
/usr/local/bin/ld: /root/git-2.50.1/wrapper.c:782: undefined reference to `getrandom'
/usr/local/bin/ld: libgit.a(wrapper.o): in function `csprng_bytes':
/root/git-2.50.1/wrapper.c:782: undefined reference to `getrandom'
/usr/local/bin/ld: /root/git-2.50.1/wrapper.c:782: undefined reference to `getrandom'
/usr/local/bin/ld: /root/git-2.50.1/wrapper.c:782: undefined reference to `getrandom'
/usr/local/bin/ld: libgit.a(wrapper.o): in function `csprng_bytes':
/root/git-2.50.1/wrapper.c:782: undefined reference to `getrandom'
/usr/local/bin/ld: /root/git-2.50.1/wrapper.c:782: undefined reference to `getrandom'
/usr/local/bin/ld: /root/git-2.50.1/wrapper.c:782: undefined reference to `getrandom'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:2895: git-http-backend] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:2895: git-sh-i18n--envsubst] Error 1
/usr/local/bin/ld: libgit.a(wrapper.o): in function `csprng_bytes':
/root/git-2.50.1/wrapper.c:782: undefined reference to `getrandom'
/usr/local/bin/ld: /root/git-2.50.1/wrapper.c:782: undefined reference to `getrandom'
/usr/local/bin/ld: /root/git-2.50.1/wrapper.c:782: undefined reference to `getrandom'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:2895: git-daemon] Error 1
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:2898: git-imap-send] Error 1
> I/m soorry for the noob quesion but how do I get the patched version of the sane-ctype.h? I/m not sure where exactly to apply the patch to. I only see the diff, and not the whole file itself. And what are the chances of this patch being merged to master branch
>
>>> Hello everyone! I'm having trouble compilig git source since version 2.50 , for RHEL 6 (both in redhat 6-6 and 6.10).
>>> the same source compiles fine in RHEL8 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.10 (Ootpa))
>>> first compiler complans about missing random.h in compat/posix.h ,if you copy missing random.h file to RHEL6 machine to the /usr/include/sys directory then errors change to whole bunch of other errors like
>>> error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before numeric constant
>>>
>>> 45 | #define toupper(x) sane_case((unsigned char)(x), 0)
>>> both working and non working systems have same gcc 13-4.0 . Last version that compiles in both rhel 6 and rhel 8 is 2.49.1 Any ideas ?
>>
>> There is a patch to fix this issue available at
>> https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqtt3j69r8.fsf@gitster.g/
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Phillip
>>
>>> git-2.50.1# make -j $(nproc) configure && ./configure && make -j $(nproc) && make -j $(nproc) install && make -j $(nproc) clean
>>> GIT_VERSION=2.50.1
>>> GEN configure
>>> configure: Setting lib to 'lib' (the default)
>>> configure: Will try -pthread then -lpthread to enable POSIX Threads.
>>> configure: CHECKS for site configuration
>>> checking for gcc... /usr/local/gcc-13.4.0/bin/gcc-13.4
>>> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
>>> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
>>> checking for suffix of executables...
>>> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>>> checking for suffix of object files... o
>>> checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes
>>> checking whether /usr/local/gcc-13.4.0/bin/gcc-13.4 accepts -g... yes
>>> checking for /usr/local/gcc-13.4.0/bin/gcc-13.4 option to enable C11 features... none needed
>>> checking for stdio.h... yes
>>> checking for stdlib.h... yes
>>> checking for string.h... yes
>>> checking for inttypes.h... yes
>>> checking for stdint.h... yes
>>> checking for strings.h... yes
>>> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
>>> checking for sys/types.h... yes
>>> checking for unistd.h... yes
>>> checking for size_t... yes
>>> checking for working alloca.h... yes
>>> checking for alloca... yes
>>> configure: CHECKS for programs
>>> checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... (cached) yes
>>> checking whether /usr/local/gcc-13.4.0/bin/gcc-13.4 accepts -g... (cached) yes
>>> checking for /usr/local/gcc-13.4.0/bin/gcc-13.4 option to enable C11 features... (cached) none needed
>>> checking for inline... inline
>>> checking if linker supports -R... no
>>> checking if linker supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes
>>> checking for gar... no
>>> checking for ar... ar
>>> checking for gtar... gtar
>>> checking for gnudiff... no
>>> checking for gdiff... no
>>> checking for diff... diff
>>> checking for asciidoc... no
>>> configure: CHECKS for libraries
>>> checking for SHA1_Init in -lcrypto... yes
>>> checking for curl_global_init in -lcurl... yes
>>> checking for curl-config... curl-config
>>> configure: Setting CURL_LDFLAGS to '-L/usr/local/lib -lcurl'
>>> checking for XML_ParserCreate in -lexpat... yes
>>> checking for iconv in -lc... yes
>>> checking for deflateBound in -lz... yes
>>> checking for socket in -lc... yes
>>> checking for inet_ntop... yes
>>> checking for inet_pton... yes
>>> checking for hstrerror... yes
>>> checking for basename in -lc... yes
>>> checking if libc contains libintl... yes
>>> checking for libintl.h... yes
>>> configure: CHECKS for header files
>>> checking for sys/select.h... yes
>>> checking for poll.h... yes
>>> checking for sys/poll.h... yes
>>> checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
>>> checking for old iconv()... no
>>> checking whether iconv omits bom for utf-16 and utf-32... no
>>> configure: CHECKS for typedefs, structures, and compiler characteristics
>>> checking for socklen_t... yes
>>> checking for struct itimerval... yes
>>> checking for struct stat.st_mtimespec.tv_nsec... no
>>> checking for struct stat.st_mtim.tv_nsec... yes
>>> checking for struct dirent.d_type... yes
>>> checking for struct passwd.pw_gecos... yes
>>> checking for struct sockaddr_storage... yes
>>> checking for struct addrinfo... yes
>>> checking for getaddrinfo... yes
>>> checking for library containing getaddrinfo... none required
>>> checking how to run the C preprocessor... /usr/local/gcc-13.4.0/bin/gcc-13.4 -E
>>> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
>>> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
>>> checking whether the platform regex supports REG_STARTEND... yes
>>> checking whether system succeeds to read fopen'ed directory... yes
>>> checking whether snprintf() and/or vsnprintf() return bogus value... no
>>> checking whether the platform uses typical file type bits... yes
>>> configure: CHECKS for library functions
>>> checking for libgen.h... yes
>>> checking for paths.h... yes
>>> checking for libcharset.h... no
>>> checking for strings.h... (cached) yes
>>> checking for locale_charset in -liconv... no
>>> checking for locale_charset in -lcharset... no
>>> checking for sysinfo... yes
>>> checking for clock_gettime... no
>>> checking for CLOCK_MONOTONIC... yes
>>> checking for sync_file_range... yes
>>> checking for library containing sync_file_range... none required
>>> checking for setitimer... yes
>>> checking for library containing setitimer... none required
>>> checking for strcasestr... yes
>>> checking for library containing strcasestr... none required
>>> checking for memmem... yes
>>> checking for library containing memmem... none required
>>> checking for strlcpy... no
>>> checking for uintmax_t... yes
>>> checking for strtoumax... yes
>>> checking for library containing strtoumax... none required
>>> checking for setenv... yes
>>> checking for library containing setenv... none required
>>> checking for unsetenv... yes
>>> checking for library containing unsetenv... none required
>>> checking for mkdtemp... yes
>>> checking for library containing mkdtemp... none required
>>> checking for initgroups... yes
>>> checking for library containing initgroups... none required
>>> checking for getdelim... yes
>>> checking for library containing getdelim... none required
>>> checking for BSD sysctl... no
>>> checking for POSIX Threads with ''... no
>>> checking for POSIX Threads with '-mt'... no
>>> checking for POSIX Threads with '-pthread'... yes
>>> configure: creating ./config.status
>>> config.status: creating config.mak.autogen
>>> config.status: executing config.mak.autogen commands
>>> * new build flags
>>> * new link flags
>>> CC base85.o
>>> CC bisect.o
>>> * new prefix flags
>>> CC blame.o
>>> CC blob.o
>>> CC bloom.o
>>> CC branch.o
>>> CC bulk-checkin.o
>>> CC bundle-uri.o
>>> CC bundle.o
>>> CC cache-tree.o
>>> CC cbtree.o
>>> CC chdir-notify.o
>>> CC checkout.o
>>> CC chunk-format.o
>>> CC color.o
>>> CC column.o
>>> In file included from compat/posix.h:449,
>>> from git-compat-util.h:26,
>>> from checkout.c:3:
>>> compat/../sane-ctype.h:29:60: error: expected expression before ‘]’ token
>>> 29 | #define sane_istest(x,mask) ((sane_ctype[(unsigned char)(x)] & (mask)) != 0)
>>> | ^
>>> 0)
>>> | ^
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: cbtree.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: base85.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: chdir-notify.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: chunk-format.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: blob.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: color.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: checkout.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: column.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: bulk-checkin.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: branch.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: cache-tree.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: bloom.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: bundle-uri.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: bundle.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: bisect.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** [Makefile:2821: blame.o] Error 1
