[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #43509] Compilation stop, because of undefined 'gets'

[John]

URL:
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                 Summary: Compilation stop, because of undefined 'gets'
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: jcoppens
            Submitted on: Fri 31 Oct 2014 04:04:21 PM GMT
                Category: Configuration and Build System
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Build Failure
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: John
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.8.2
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

Compilation stops with this message:


libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I./array -I./cruft/misc
-Inumeric -I./numeric -Ioperators -I./operators -I./system -I./util
-I../libgnu -I../libgnu -I./cruft/Faddeeva -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wformat
-Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings
-Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -g -O2 -pthread -MT
numeric/numeric_libnumeric_la-randgamma.lo -MD -MP -MF
numeric/.deps/numeric_libnumeric_la-randgamma.Tpo -c numeric/randgamma.c 
-fPIC -DPIC -o numeric/.libs/numeric_libnumeric_la-randgamma.o
In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:219:0,
                 from ../libgnu/sys/types.h:27,
                 from ../libgnu/stdio.h:58,
                 from numeric/randgamma.c:84:
../libgnu/stdio.h:1034:1: error: 'gets' undeclared here (not in a function)
 _GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
 ^
make[4]: *** [numeric/numeric_libnumeric_la-randgamma.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/system/octave-3.8.2/liboctave'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/system/octave-3.8.2/liboctave'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/system/octave-3.8.2/liboctave'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/system/octave-3.8.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Again, no expert. But could it be that if gets isn't defined in the stdio lib,
then this warning fails?

I could not find any instance of an actual use of gets in the code. I suspect
this error shouldn't be triggered?

I also checked the configure log, and it says gets is *not* defined without a
macro.





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