Re: wget 1.21.1 fails to build on macOS (10.14, 10.15, 11.1)

[Darshit Shah]

On 25.01.21 06:40, Carlo Cabrera wrote:
> wget 1.21.1 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/68667
> 
> The errors (on 11.1) starts at
> 
>     
> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/68667/checks?check_run_id=1674726970#step:7:910
> 
> The exact same errors affect findutils 4.8.0, so the bug may not be in
> wget. If so, I'd appreciate being pointed to the right place to submit
> this bug report.
> 
> 

This looks like a bug in the gnulib code. The correct place t o report
it would be bug-gnulib@gnu.org. I will try and take a closer look at it
soon, but I can't promise a timeline. A little too busy these days.