Re: findutils 4.8.0 fails to build on macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11.1

[James Youngman]

>From line 63 of the log:

> checking for gcc... clang

Try building with GCC.   On MacOS there is (sometimes?) a "gcc" binary
which is actually LLVM / clang.   It looks like what's happening in your
case is that the gcc binary on your system is not actually gcc, and is not
actually behaving identically to gcc, and so you're getting bad results.


On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 7:00 AM Carlo Cabrera <
carlo.antonio.cabrera@gmail.com> wrote:

> findutils 4.8.0 fails to build on macOS 10.14, 10.15, and 11.1. The build
> fails with a series of errors starting with
>
>     In file included from regex.c:74:
>     In file included from ./regexec.c:1362:
>     ./malloc/dynarray-skeleton.c:195:13: error: expected identifier or '('
>     __nonnull ((1))
>                 ^
>     ./malloc/dynarray-skeleton.c:195:13: error: expected ')'
>     ./malloc/dynarray-skeleton.c:195:12: note: to match this '('
>     __nonnull ((1))
>                ^
>
> Complete build logs available at
>
>     https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/68646
>
> The error (on 11.1) starts at
>
>
> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/68646/checks?check_run_id=1674525012#step:7:1011
>
> The exact same errors affect wget 1.21.1, so the bug may not be in
> findutils. If so, I'd appreciate being pointed to the right place to submit
> this bug report. I've also reported this to bug-wget.
>
>