Re: can't compile coreutils-9.3 any more after upgrade to cygwin-3.4.8

[Mark Geisert <mark@maxrnd.com>]

Hi Corinna,

Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Aug 24 14:39, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote:
>> Denis Excoffier via Cygwin wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> When i try to compile coreutils-9.3 under cygwin-3.4.8 i get the following error messages (see below).
>>> There seems to be a kind of loop in the hierarchy of #includes.
>>> Moreover, with cygwin-3.4.7, this is ok. Also, if under cygwin-3.4.8 i remove the 2 #includes from /usr/include/sys/cpuset.h,
>>> this is also ok.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Denis Excoffier.
>>>
[...compilation log excerpt elided here...]
> 
> Usually it's easily fixable. There's typically no loop because
> of the guards, e.g.
> 
>    #ifndef _SYS_CPUSET_H_
>    #define _SYS_CPUSET_H_
> 
> but some guarding can have side effects.
> 
> However, somebody needs to come up *at least* with a simple reproducer.

It can be reproduced by running 'cygport coreutils.cygport build' in a prep'd 
coreutils source directory e.g. /usr/src/coreutils-9.0-1.src .  Excerpt follows:

make[3]: Entering directory 
'/usr/src/coreutils-9.0-1.src/coreutils-9.0-1.x86_64/build'
   CC       lib/exclude.o
   CC       lib/exitfail.o
   CC       lib/fadvise.o
   CC       lib/creat-safer.o
In file included from /usr/include/sys/signal.h:23,
                  from /usr/include/signal.h:6,
                  from ./lib/signal.h:52,
                  from /usr/include/time.h:158,
                  from ./lib/time.h:47,
                  from ./lib/sys/stat.h:44,
                  from ./lib/fcntl.h:64,
                  from ./lib/unistd.h:81,
                  from ./lib/stdlib.h:100,
                  from /usr/include/sys/cpuset.h:12,
                  from /usr/include/sys/_pthreadtypes.h:12,
                  from /usr/include/sys/types.h:221,
                  from ./lib/sys/types.h:39,
                  from ./lib/stdio.h:58,
                  from 
/usr/src/coreutils-9.0-1.src/coreutils-9.0-1.x86_64/src/coreutils-9.0/lib/exclude.c:31:
/usr/include/cygwin/signal.h:121:3: error: unknown type name 'pthread_attr_t'
   121 |   pthread_attr_t *sigev_notify_attributes; /* notification attributes */
       |   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:6,
                  from ./lib/signal.h:52,
                  from /usr/include/time.h:158,
                  from ./lib/time.h:47,
                  from ./lib/sys/stat.h:44,
                  from ./lib/fcntl.h:64,
                  from ./lib/unistd.h:81,
                  from ./lib/stdlib.h:100,
                  from /usr/include/sys/cpuset.h:12,
                  from /usr/include/sys/_pthreadtypes.h:12,
                  from /usr/include/sys/types.h:221,
                  from ./lib/sys/types.h:39,
                  from ./lib/stdio.h:58,
                  from 
/usr/src/coreutils-9.0-1.src/coreutils-9.0-1.x86_64/src/coreutils-9.0/lib/exclude.c:31:
/usr/include/sys/signal.h:227:29: error: expected ')' before 'int'
   227 | int pthread_kill (pthread_t, int);
       |                             ^~~~
       |                             )
In file included from /usr/include/sys/stat.h:22,
                  from ./lib/sys/stat.h:47,
                  from ./lib/fcntl.h:64,
                  from ./lib/unistd.h:81,
                  from ./lib/stdlib.h:100,
                  from /usr/include/sys/cpuset.h:12,
                  from /usr/include/sys/_pthreadtypes.h:12,
                  from /usr/include/sys/types.h:221,
                  from ./lib/sys/types.h:39,
                  from ./lib/stdio.h:58,
                  from 
/usr/src/coreutils-9.0-1.src/coreutils-9.0-1.x86_64/src/coreutils-9.0/lib/exclude.c:31:
/usr/include/cygwin/stat.h:27:3: error: unknown type name 'timestruc_t'
    27 |   timestruc_t   st_atim;
       |   ^~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/include/cygwin/stat.h:28:3: error: unknown type name 'timestruc_t'
    28 |   timestruc_t   st_mtim;
       |   ^~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/include/cygwin/stat.h:29:3: error: unknown type name 'timestruc_t'
    29 |   timestruc_t   st_ctim;
       |   ^~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/include/cygwin/stat.h:32:3: error: unknown type name 'timestruc_t'
    32 |   timestruc_t   st_birthtim;
       |   ^~~~~~~~~~~

I've trimmed the errors back to just those from compiling lib/exclude.c.  This is 
new breakage in 3.4.8 (per Denis) and corresponds to the new in 3.4.8 #includes 
added to /usr/include/sys/cpuset.h.

I guess it's the include search order that has ./lib/stdlib.h being included from 
sys/cpuset.h rather than the "<stdlib.h>" coded there.

I'm not familiar with building coreutils.  But it seems something about the new 
#includes added to sys/cpuset.h have upset coreutils' build magic.  My offer to 
replace the two problematic #includes with two explicit extern statements still 
stands ;-).

..mark