gzip-1.3.12-2 build from source fails with errors during make

[David Sastre]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 01:47:29PM +0000, ymcp wrote:
> I'm trying to build the latest gzip-1.3.12-2 from source, following
> the instructions in "/usr/src/gzip-1.3.12-2/INSTALL", but get some
> errors during the "make" step.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> ///usr/include/sys/stat.h:165: error: conflicting types for `futimens'
> -------------------------------------------------------------------

Hello,

I can confirm that.

As a workaround, I've tested building gzip-1.4 from source using the 
a simple cygport file (below), taking advantage of gzip building OOTB.
It builds OK and all tests are passed successfully.
(Proper packaging still requires a setup.hint and a README, of course).

$ cat gzip-1.4-1.cygport
SRC_URI="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz"
HOMEPAGE="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/${PN}/"

Maybe this is a good chance to promote gzip to current upstream
version?

Also, could the following change in /usr/include/sys/stat.h be related?

 Newlib ChangeLog

 2008-04-24  Corinna Vinschen

   * libc/include/sys/stat.h (UTIME_NOW): Define for Cygwin.
   (UTIME_OMIT): Ditto.
   (utimensat): Declare for Cygwin.
   (futimens): Ditto.

 158 #if defined (__CYGWIN__) && !defined(__INSIDE_CYGWIN__)
 159 int _EXFUN(fchmodat, (int, const char *, mode_t, int));
 160 int _EXFUN(fstatat, (int, const char *, struct stat *, int));
 161 int _EXFUN(mkdirat, (int, const char *, mode_t));
 162 int _EXFUN(mkfifoat, (int, const char *, mode_t));
 163 int _EXFUN(mknodat, (int, const char *, mode_t, dev_t));
 164 int _EXFUN(utimensat, (int, const char *, const struct timespec *, int));
 165 int _EXFUN(futimens, (int, const struct timespec *));
 166 #endif

Did it break gzip-1.3 (2007)?

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