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24.5; Build failure with modules on OpenBSD

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Message #17 received at 22385-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Joakim Jalap <joakim.jalap <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: Gabriele Svelto <gabriele.svelto <at> gmail.com>, 22385-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 24.5; Build failure with modules on OpenBSD
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 14:30:46 -0800

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Thanks for reporting the problem. The OpenBSD compiler warnings about strcpy 
etc. are false alarms, and these false alarms confuse the Emacs build procedure 
and therefore introduce bugs into the Emacs module code. We're lucky that a 
run-time assertion caught this.

I installed the attached patch into the emacs-25 branch. It removes the 
offending test in 'configure', and so should fix the bug so I am boldly marking 
it as done. Please give the fix a try; if it doesn't work I can unmark the bug.

Is there some way to tell the OpenBSD C compiler to not chatter about uses of 
strcpy, strcat, and sprintf? We don't want to use the OpenBSD-suggested 
replacements in Emacs, as that would be more likely to introduce bugs than to 
fix them. If we can suggest (or get 'configure' to use) a build-time option to 
suppress the false alarms that would save everybody some work and would help 
make Emacs more reliable.

Although the OpenBSD porting problem with AX_GCC_VAR_ATTRIBUTE no longer affects 
Emacs, it might affect other programs that use that macro, so I'll CC: this to 
the macro's author Gabriele Svelto. Gabriele, the bug report is here:

http://bugs.gnu.org/22385

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