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30.0.50; Build failure on old GNU/Linux system

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: lux <lx <at> shellcodes.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 60843 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60843: 30.0.50; Build failure on old GNU/Linux system
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 14:11:22 -0700

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> lux <lx <at> shellcodes.org> writes:
>
>> Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:
>>
>>> Since the last gnulib merge, Emacs refuses to build on Fedora 9:
>>>
>>> qcopy-acl.c: In function ‘is_attr_permissions’:
>>> qcopy-acl.c:36: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘attr_copy_action’
>>> qcopy-acl.c:36: error: ‘ATTR_ACTION_PERMISSIONS’ undeclared (first use in this function)
>>> qcopy-acl.c:36: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>>> qcopy-acl.c:36: error: for each function it appears in.)
>>>
>>> Would someone please take a look at this?  Thanks.
>>
>> Probably because the version of libattr in Fedora 9 is too low, Fedora 9
>> using the libattr-2.4.41, `ATTR_ACTION_PERMISSIONS' is not defined.
>>
>> I see the `ATTR_ACTION_PERMISSIONS' first defined in 2008-05-19
>> (https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/attr.git/commit/?id=467bbfa56a14c1571082cab2385d272bead78fdc)
>>
>> You can also disable xattr to solve the problem:
>>
>>     $ ./configure --disable-xattr
>>
>> I compiled successfully in Fedora 9:
>>
>>   [root <at> localhost emacs]# lsb_release -a
>>   LSB Version:	:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-amd64:graphics-3.1-noarch
>>   Distributor ID:	Fedora
>>   Description:	Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
>>   Release:	9
>>   Codename:	Sulphur
>>   [root <at> localhost emacs]# emacs --version
>>   GNU Emacs 30.0.50
>>   Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>   GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>>   You may redistribute copies of GNU Emacs
>>   under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
>>   For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
>
> Yes, but it should be fixed in gnulib.  Emacs should compile cleanly
> without any arguments to configure.

Paul, do you have any comments here?

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