Can not build gzip-1.4: bugs around match.S

[Petr Pisar]

Hello,

I'm not able to build gzip-1.4 on my i686 machine:

cp ./match.c _match.S
gcc -std=gnu99 -E  -DNO_UNDERLINE _match.S > _match.i
sed '/^ * < _match.i > match_.s
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
make[3]: *** [match.o] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gzip-1.4/lib'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gzip-1.4/lib'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gzip-1.4/lib'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

This is caused by shell (bash-4.0_p35) or make (make-3.81) that truncates sed
script after hash sign:

$ grep ASCPPPOST lib/Makefile
ASCPPPOST = sed '/^ *#/d; s,//.*,,; s/% /%/g; s/\. /./g'
        $(ASCPPPOST) < _match.i > match_.s

Simple backslash-escaping could help.


I found other problem during investigating why compilation works on other i586
machine. The difference is the i686 is recognised by configure as ASMV:

configure:22627: checking for an assembler syntax supported by this package
configure:22657: result: yes, with -Wa,--noexecstack

$ grep ASMV  lib/config.h
#define ASMV /**/

And the second problem is my i686 machine has its own /usr/include/config.h
that is included from lib/match.S instead of ./lib/config.h:

gcc -std=gnu99 -E  -DNO_UNDERLINE _match.S > _match.i
[...]
[pid 25009] open("_match.S", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY) = 3
[pid 25009] open("/usr/local/include/config.h", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or directory)
[pid 25009] open("/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/include/config.h", 
O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 25009] open("/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/include-fixed/config.h", 
O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 25009] open("/usr/include/config.h", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY) = 3

AM_CPPFLAGS in lib/Makfile is not populated apparently:

$ grep CPPFLAGS lib/Makefile
COMPILE = $(CC) $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) $(AM_CPPFLAGS) \
        $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS)
ASCPPFLAGS = -DNO_UNDERLINE
CPPFLAGS = 
AM_CPPFLAGS = 
# approach of adding -DLIBDIR=\"$(libdir)\" etc. to AM_CPPFLAGS,
        $(CPP) $(CPPFLAGS) $(ASCPPFLAGS) _match.S > _match.i
        $(CC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(ASFLAGS_config) -c match_.s

Maybe the second bug confuses configure to guess match.S should be compiled in.

-- Petr

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