Re: Breakage on builder RHEL-s390x-m64, revision 7a6dbc2fdb2323c35e981f93236f323e9d7c0b24

Sergio Durigan Junior
2018-08-30T03:06:04Z

On Wednesday, August 29 2018, I wrote:

> On Wednesday, August 29 2018, I wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, August 29 2018, gdb-buildbot wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately it seems that there is a breakage on GDB.
>>>
>>> Commit title: 'Update gnulib to current upstream master'
>>> Revision: 7a6dbc2fdb2323c35e981f93236f323e9d7c0b24
>>
>> I'm investigating this.
>
> Hello, David,
>
> After my last commit, which updated GDB's local copy of gnulib, I'm
> seeing a breakage on the RHEL 7.1 s390x builder (see the rest of the
> quoted message). Unfortunately I don't have easy access to a similar
> machine, so I would like to know if:
>
> 1) You could help me with investigating this a bit more, or
>
> 2) You could grant me temporary access to the machine so I can
> investigate the problem.
>
> I would like to know a few things:
>
> a) Why is GCC apparently not using the C99 mode when compiling gnulib.
> This is causing the "‘for’ loop initial declarations are only allowed in
> C99 mode" error.
>
> b) Is there a "stddef.h" file in the build dir? Does it declare
> "max_align_t"? This is causing the "unknown type name ‘max_align_t’"
> error.
>
> Thanks in advance,

Hi again, David,

As it turns out, I managed to reproduce the problem locally here, so
there's no need for the temporary access anymore.

Thanks,

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