Build notes for ds10

• October 19, 2012
• gcc (4.6.1), a normal make command results in a link failure:

  
      libbackend.a(tree-vect-data-refs.o): In function `get_insns':
      /usr/src/gcc-4.6.1_build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6.1/gcc/emit-rtl.h:71: relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against symbol `x_rtl' defined in .bss section in libbackend.a(emit-rtl.o)
      libbackend.a(tree-vect-data-refs.o): In function `set_first_insn':
      /usr/src/gcc-4.6.1_build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6.1/gcc/emit-rtl.h:80: relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against symbol `x_rtl' defined in .bss section in libbackend.a(emit-rtl.o)
      libbackend.a(tree-vect-data-refs.o): In function `get_last_insn':
      /usr/src/gcc-4.6.1_build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6.1/gcc/emit-rtl.h:88: relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against symbol `x_rtl' defined in .bss section in libbackend.a(emit-rtl.o)
      libbackend.a(tree-vect-data-refs.o): In function `set_last_insn':
      /usr/src/gcc-4.6.1_build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6.1/gcc/emit-rtl.h:97: relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against symbol `x_rtl' defined in .bss section in libbackend.a(emit-rtl.o)
      libbackend.a(tree-vect-data-refs.o): In function `get_max_uid':
      /usr/src/gcc-4.6.1_build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6.1/gcc/emit-rtl.h:105: relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against symbol `x_rtl' defined in .bss section in libbackend.a(emit-rtl.o)
      libbackend.a(ddg.o): In function `get_insns':
      /usr/src/gcc-4.6.1_build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6.1/gcc/emit-rtl.h:71: relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against symbol `x_rtl' defined in .bss section in libbackend.a(emit-rtl.o)
      libbackend.a(ddg.o): In function `set_first_insn':
      /usr/src/gcc-4.6.1_build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6.1/gcc/emit-rtl.h:80: relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against symbol `x_rtl' defined in .bss section in libbackend.a(emit-rtl.o)
      libbackend.a(ddg.o): In function `get_last_insn':
      /usr/src/gcc-4.6.1_build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6.1/gcc/emit-rtl.h:88: relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against symbol `x_rtl' defined in .bss section in libbackend.a(emit-rtl.o)
      libbackend.a(ddg.o): In function `set_last_insn':
      /usr/src/gcc-4.6.1_build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6.1/gcc/emit-rtl.h:97: relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against symbol `x_rtl' defined in .bss section in libbackend.a(emit-rtl.o)
      libbackend.a(ddg.o): In function `get_max_uid':
      /usr/src/gcc-4.6.1_build/gcc/../../gcc-4.6.1/gcc/emit-rtl.h:105: relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against symbol `x_rtl' defined in .bss section in libbackend.a(emit-rtl.o)
      

  Could not find the cause of it, but can work around it by first building the compiler "gcc", and next the remaining stuff (support libraries etc):

  
      $ make all-gcc
      $ make
      

  This however results in a problem with the "clean" target of make. Various Makefile's refer to the binary "xgcc" (located somewhere in the build tree) and this binary is apparently removed at an early stage. When executing the "clean" target manually the Makefiles trip over the missing "xgcc". One can either remove the entire build tree or clean every directory separately and point to an existing "gcc" binary, like this:

  
      $ for dir in `find . -type f -name Makefile -printf '%h\n'`; do
      make -C $dir CC=gcc clean; done
      

— UPDATE (September 2, 2020) —

Better solution is to create a build config in <gcc-srcdir>/config/ and use that file as an additional config during the configuration of GCC. The build config file contains linker flags which will prevent the problem above from occurring.
Create the build config file <gcc-srcdir>/config/alpha-linux.mk with the following contents:

    LDFLAGS = -Wl,--no-relax
    BOOT_LDFLAGS = -Wl,--no-relax
    

Now, configuring GCC and use the option --with-build-config to choose the build configuration(s):

    ./configure [options]... --with-build-config='bootstrap-debug alpha-linux'
    

Build config bootstrap-debug is the default config when --with-build-config is omitted, so you need to specify the default config in addition to the alpha-linux config.

Note that a make distclean "forgets" to remove the file fixincludes/config.cache. Remove this file before doing a new build.

• October 20, 2012
• jpeg-6b, applied some of the optimization hints described in install.doc:
  
  
  • jconfig.h: add #define JDCT_DEFAULT JDCT_FLOAT
    (on Alpha floats are faster than ints)
  • jmorecfg.h: changed typedef of JCOEF from "short" to "int"
    (on Alpha 32 bits ops (i.e. int, long) are faster than 8 or 16 bits ops)
  
  Need to replace config.sub and config.guess by a newer version since they do not recognize ev67 (only applicable when building libraries).
  
  --infodir and --mandir options not honoured when running ./configure script, so modified main Makefile.

• October 23, 2012
• pixman (0.26.2), optimizing with -O2 or higher causes the test suite to fail on lt-stress-test and lt-blitters-test.

• October 24, 2012
• mozilla
  all:
  • Makefile xpcom/reflect/xptcall/src/md/unix/Makefile does not match Alpha architecture correctly. Lookup Alpha definition section in the file and add a "%"-sign to the word Linuxalpha of the filter command.
  • Makefile ff-opt/xpcom/reflect/xptcall/src/md/unix/Makefile may suffer from the exact same problem.
  
  1.9.2:
  • File xpcom/glue/nsEnumeratorUtils.cpp has an uninitialized const which fails compiling. Copied build command for this file, ran it manually, and added the -fpermissive flag to the build command to allow uninitialized constants. Alternatively, a "target-specific variable" could be added to xpcom/glue/Makefile:

    
        nsEnumeratorUtils.o: COMPILE_CXXFLAGS += -fpermissive
        

    The following files suffer from the same issue:

    
        xpcom/glue/standalone/nsEnumeratorUtils.cpp
        xpcom/base/nsDebugImpl.cpp
        xpcom/base/nsTraceRefcntImpl.cpp
        xpcom/io/nsUnicharInputStream.cpp
        xpcom/build/nsEnumeratorUtils.cpp
        storage/src/mozStorageStatement.cpp
        layout/style/nsCSSRuleProcessor.cpp
        toolkit/components/places/SQLFunctions.cpp
        toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp
        embedding/browser/gtk/src/EmbedPrivate.cpp
        

  • --disable-ipc
    No support for atomic operations on Alpha in ipc/chromium/base/src/atomicops.h.
  • --enable-ogg or --enable-wave
    Defines MOZ_MEDIA which prevents an "undefined reference" in content/base/src/nsContentSink.cpp.
  • --disable-tests
    No RETURN_INSTR definition for Alpha in layout/base/tests/TestPoisonArea.cpp.
  • --enable-zipwriter
    Prevents a build error due to missing nsIZipWriter.h.
  • Including (system) header stddef.h in file gfx/ots/src/os2.cc:

    
        #include <stddef.h>
        

    The header file provides the macro offsetof which is needed by os2.cc. Occurence of the problem depends on the GCC version being used (4.6.1 in this case).
  
  6.0.1; 10.0.1; 20.0.1:
  • In ipc/chromium/src/build/build_config.h added Alpha support:

    
        #elif defined(__alpha__)
        #define ARCH_CPU_ALPHA 1
        #define ARCH_CPU_64_BITS 1
        

  • In gfx/ycbcr/chromium_types.h added Alpha support:

    
        #elif defined(__alpha__)
        #define ARCH_CPU_ALPHA_FAMILY 1
        #define ARCH_CPU_ALPHA 1
        #define ARCH_CPU_64_BITS 1
        

  • In xpcom/glue/nsID.h, struct nsID, set alignment for member m0 appropriate for your machine. E.g. for a DS10 (EV67) the preferred alignment is 8 bytes:

    
        PRUint32 m0 __attribute__((aligned (8)));
        

    Without proper alignment you get tons of unalignment traps from the kernel.
  
  10.0.1:
  • Applied patches.
  • Removed static qualifiers in widgets/src/gtk2/gtk2compat.h since it's conflicting with the GTK header files.
  • In js/src/yarr/BumpPointerAllocator.h, after the opening of the "WTF" namespace, added support for Alpha. The size corresponds to the machine's page size (refer to /proc/cpuinfo).

    
        #elif WTF_CPU_ALPHA
        #define MINIMUM_BUMP_POOL_SIZE 0x2000
        

  
  20.0.1:
  • Applied patch to allow using "system" Cairo instead of Mozilla native.
  • Removed static qualifiers in widget/gtk2/compat/gdk/gdkwindow.h since it's conflicting with the GTK header files. In addition, I've commented out the function defintions in gdkwindow.h as this header file is (indirectly) included in both widget/gtk2/gtk2drawing.c and widget/gtk2/mozcontainer.c. When the libxul.so library is created, these two files cause duplicate function definitions and linking libxul.so fails (using GTK 2.24.13).
  • Speaking of libxul.so, libraries of Ogg, Vorbis, Theroa are not included during the link of libxul.so causing undefined references. Added these libraries to the Makefile of libxul.so in . Add the following to variable EXTRA_DSO_LDOPTS for the MOZ_ALSA conditional:

    
        EXTRA_DSO_LDOPTS += -logg -lvorbis -ltheora $(MOZ_ALSA_LIBS)
        

    Furthermore a problem occurs when linking with the GCC 4.6 series ("relocation truncated to fit" error). The --no-relax flag needs to be passed to the linker, so in the Makefile.in file of libxul.so I've added to the variable EXTRA_DSO_LDOPTS the linker option -Wl,--no-relax. Alternatively, this could be added to the regular Makefile of libxul.so instead.
  • In js/src/yarr/BumpPointerAllocator.h, after the opening of the "WTF" namespace, added support for Alpha. The size corresponds to the machine's page size (refer to /proc/cpuinfo).

    
        #elif WTF_CPU_ALPHA
        #define MINIMUM_BUMP_POOL_SIZE 0x2000
        

  Also, there's a runtime check of the page size going wrong when jemalloc is being used (which is the default). The check assumes a page size of 4k while the page size on Alpha is 8k. Open file memory/mozjemalloc/jemalloc.c around line 1115 and change the "define" for pagesize_2pow to 13 instead of 12 (or wrap it in a conditional directive). If jemalloc is disabled (--disable-jemalloc), then the page size seems to be defined in js/public/HeapAPI.h, around line 25.


• Xorg (X11R7.7) Used build order:

  
      intltool           (freedesktop.org)
  
      util/makedepend
      util/util-macros
  
      proto/glproto
      proto/dri2proto    (freedesktop.org)
      proto/xf86driproto
      proto/bigreqsproto
      proto/compositeproto
      proto/dmxproto
      proto/fixesproto
      proto/fontsproto
      proto/inputproto
      proto/kbproto
      proto/randrproto
      proto/recordproto
      proto/renderproto
      proto/resourceproto
      proto/scrnsaverproto
      proto/videoproto
      proto/xcmiscproto
      proto/xextproto
      proto/xf86bigfontproto
      proto/xf86dgaproto
      proto/xf86vidmodeproto
      proto/xineramaproto
      proto/xproto
  
      xcb/xcb-proto
      xcb/libpthread-stubs
      xcb/libxcb
  
      lib/libdrm         (freedesktop.org)
      lib/Mesa           (freedesktop.org)
      lib/libFS
      lib/libICE
      lib/libSM
      lib/libX11
      lib/libXScrnSaver
      lib/libXau
      lib/libXaw
      lib/libXcomposite
      lib/libXcursor
      lib/libXdamage
      lib/libXdmcp
      lib/libXext
      lib/libXfixes
      lib/libXfont
      lib/libXi
      lib/libXinerama
      lib/libXmu
      lib/libXpm
      lib/libXrandr
      lib/libXrender
      lib/libXres
      lib/libXt
      lib/libXtst
      lib/libXv
      lib/libXvMC
      lib/libXxf86dga
      lib/libXxf86vm
      lib/libdmx
      lib/libfontenc
      lib/libpciaccess
      lib/libxkbfile
      lib/xtrans
  
      app/*
  
      data/*
  
      font/font-util
      font/*
  
      xserver/xorg-server
  
      driver/*
  
      doc/xorg-docs
      

  X printing support is changed or missing, so copied libXp, libXprintUtil, libXprintAppUtil, and printproto from the 7.3 release.
  The unsupported directory requires tools like imake which is no longer part of the 7.7 release, so copied the latest version of imake, gccmakedep, lndir, and xorg-cf-files from the 7.3 release.

• October 29, 2012
• glib (2.32.4), old header file /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gperiodic.h may be left after installing. This header file causes a link error for gobject-introspection (1.31.22) (undefined reference g_periodic_get_type).

• November 16, 2012
• lynx (2.8.7), when configuring with SSL support (--with-ssl option), linking the final executable may be missing the dl library. The ./configure script can use the pkg-config utility to determine compile and link flags for SSL; the link flags may be missing the dl library resulting in undefined references when lynx is being linked.
  Specifying --with-ssl=<path> where <path> is /usr for instance, triggers additional tests in the ./configure script in which case the dl library will be used during the final link of lynx.

• November 21, 2012
• libgsf (1.14.4), the files gsf/gsf-infile-stdio.c, gsf/gsf-output-csv.c, and gsf/gsf-output-iconv.c are directly including Glib-specific header files which doesn't seem to be allowed by Glib. It seems you only have to include glib.h.
• abiword (2.8.6), files goffice-bits/goffice/app/goffice-app.h and src/af/util/xp/ut_go_file.h include Glib-specific headers. Must use glib.h header file instead.

• November 27, 2012
• abiword (2.8.6), encountered link error. In src/Makefile removed the flag -avoid-version from the LDFLAGS definitions since this flag is not recognized by the compiler or the linker. Other linker flags used in this makefile are --no-undefined and -export-dynamic. They are passed to the compiler, g++, but since they are linker flags they should be passed to ld. Therefore, these options are prefixed with the -Wl flag:

  
      -Wl,--no-undefined
      

  and

  
      -Wl,--export-dynamic
      

  Note the double dash in front of the --export-dynamic flag.

• December 10, 2012
• lcms (2-2.4), must compile with IEEE floating point compatibility else the test suite breaks with a floating point exception. So, added -mieee to CFLAGS.

• January 3, 2013
• firefox (6.0.1), compiling Firefox with binutils 2.21 requires the option --no-relax to be added to the linker flags. The flag can be added to the variable OS_LDFLAGS in the file config/autoconf.mk (located in directory where Firefox is being built). E.g:

  
      OS_LDFLAGS = -lpthread -Wl,--no-relax
      

  Previous versions of binutils did not need the --no-relax option, because they apparently use it by default.

• January 6, 2013
• libtool. When a library is installed in a new location, libtool archives (i.e. *.la files) depending on the library may contain the path to the old library. For example, if X11 libraries were once installed in /usr/lib and now you want to have a separate tree for all X11 stuff, say /usr/X11, then archives like libcairo*.la and libgtk*.la still expect certain X11 libraries in /usr/lib. So, the *.la files are not automatically kept in sync.
  In case a library has been relocated without the depending libraries know about it, libtool emits errors like "no such file or directory" and "not a valid libtool archive".

• January 8, 2013
• pixman (0.26.2), compile flag -O3 and -funroll-loops seem a bit too much, assembler bails out at some point.
• libgsf (1.14.4), when running the test suite, a duplicate definition of the function clone may cause the test suite to prematurely fail. An unrelated clone function is also defined in one of the system header files, so this seems to be an unfortunate choice of names. There are 4 files in libgsf using a clone function:

  
      tests/test-cp-msole.c
      tests/test-cp-zip.c
      tests/test-dump-msole.c
      tests/test-restore-msole.c
      

  In each file I've renamed the clone function to gsf_clone.
• python (2.5.2), may need to add compiler flag -mieee to CFLAGS variable. Without this flag the floating point test will fail.

• January 14, 2013
• Xaw3d (1.5E), in order to build the (separate) Athena widget library (Xaw3d) I've followed the instructions to build the library without an X11 source tree. This will create a proper Makefile to build the library.

• January 15, 2013
• babl (0.1.10), due to many unaligned traps in code generated by GCC, I've used Compaq Alpha compiler ccc to build babl. Simply passed CC=ccc when running the ./configure script.
• ccc, in header file /usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h there may be a member variable in use by the name of __align. This happens to be a reserved keyword for ccc, so when using ccc the member variable must be renamed.

• January 17, 2013
• NSS/NSPR (3.14.1), used combined tarball of NSS and NSPR to build correctly (or must move NSPR tree in NSS tree). There's no ./configure script to build NSS; the build starts by running make in the directory <nss-release>/mozilla/security/nss. However, NSS expects NSPR to be located in the directory <nss-release>/mozilla/nsprpub and it will attempt to automatically build NSPR. If you want a specific configuration for NSPR then you must build NSPR separately in a "platform" sub-directory. The name of the "platform" directory can be determined by using the NSS Makefile:

  
      # cd <nss-release>/mozilla/security/nss
      # make BUILD_OPT=1 USE_64=1 platform
      Linux2.6_alpha_glibc_PTH_DBG.OBJ
      # cd <nss-release>/mozilla/nsprpu
      # mkdir Linux2.6_alpha_glibc_PTH_DBG.OBJ
      # cd Linux2.6_alpha_glibc_PTH_DBG.OBJ
      # ../configure <option-list>
      

  Return to the NSS directory and build NSS:

  
      make BUILD_OPT=1 USE_64=1 nss_build_all
      

  Note that build options influence the "platform" string, so ensure the "platform" target and the "nss_build_all" use the same build options. Also applies to "install" target.

• January 18, 2013
• ccc, installation addendum
  • In /usr/lib/compaq/<ccc>/alpha-linux/bin, the script probe_linux.sh does not run completely correct. Modified the following:
    1. probe_gcc(), first line, determining GCC specs file. Original line commented and replaced by:

       
           specs=`gcc -print-search-dirs 2>&1 | grep install: | sed -e 's|install: ||g'`/specs
           

    2. probe_taso(), cc commands for linking libtaso$$.so and libtaso2$$.so: Must add -fPIC flag else linker will have relocation errors.
    3. probe_demangle(), cc command with demangle flag: Demangling style compaq is no longer recognized, so used hp instead.
    4. probe_version(), the first elif statement is missing a "$" operator in front of variable DIST_FILES.
  • In /usr/lib/compaq/<ccc>/alpha-linux/bin, script create-comp-config.sh runs gcc with the -V <version> option. Recent versions of igcc no longer recognize this option, so may need to remove the -V option and its argument if create-comp-config.sh fails to run.
  • GCC specs file is needed by probe_linux.sh, but recent GCC versions use a builtin version of that file. Create specs file in GCC's install directory:

    
        gcc -dumpspecs > /usr/lib/gcc/<arch-os_name>/<gcc-version>/specs
        

  • In ccc's bin directory, adjust symlinks for crtbegin.o and crtend.o. Link them to the crtbegin.o and crtend.o of GCC.
  • In /usr/bin, adjust symlink of ccc file.
  • Copied the DEC specific header files float.h and limits.h to the compiler's private include directory (i.e. /usr/lib/compaq/<ccc>/alpha-linux/include).
  • Encountered some build errors in /usr/include/bits/stdio-ldbl.h which were due to __LDBL_REDIR1_DECL being undefined. This defininion is defined in /ust/include/sys/cdefs.h. "Fixed" the problem by adding a dummy definition for __LDBL_REDIR1_DECL.
  • In ccc's bin directory, added the following defines to comp.config (at end of line):

    
        -D__LONG_DOUBLE_128__ -D_STDC_ -D_GNU_SOURCE
        

  • Post-installation step (performed by rpm command): creating shared library of libcpml.
    (change Alpha EV variant as needed, ev5 or ev6)

    
        $ ld -shared -o libcpml_ev5.so -soname libcpml.so -whole-archive \
        libcpml_ev5.a -no-whole-archive -lots
        

• gegl (0.2.0), file operations/common/matting-global.c has a min and max definition. ccc seems to choke on the construction, so I've replaced it with a simpler construction for ccc.
  Also, in the file gegl/opencl/cl_platform.h the macro CL_ALIGNED is not defined for ccc (i.e. __DECC). The keyword __align could be used in this case, however, CL_ALIGNED is used in numerous union types and ccc does not accept the __align keyword there. Therefore, I've turned the CL_ALIGNED macro into a dummy, empty definition when using ccc.
  During ./configure some tests are performed to check whether certain warning flags (-W) are supported by the compiler (variable DESIRED_CFLAGS in ./configure script). ccc supports some of these flags and ignores the unknown ones. However, when ccc calls the linker ld, it seems to pass the unknown flags to the linker which causes an error. In order to prevent this I've adjusted the DESIRED_CFLAGS variable to only list the flags that are actually supported by ccc.
  Next problem, when creating a shared object with ccc, object symbols may get stripped away despite the sequence

  
      -Wl,--whole-archive <libs>... -Wl,--no-whole-archive
      

  The libraries specified by <libs>... are meant for the linker but it seems ccc uses <libs>... for itself and leaves an empty "-Wl,--whole-archive" / "-Wl,--no-whole-archive" sequence. A simple workaround is to prefix each filename in <libs>... with -Wl, as such options are passed to the linker. (use -v flag to verify the commands ccc runs)
  
  Note on the __align keyword. ccc expects the alignment as a power of 2 which is different to how GCC expects the alignment (which is the number of bytes). When using some alignment macro, the following can be used to convert a GCC alignment specification to ccc alignment.

  
      /*
       *  Translate GCC alignment (in bytes)
       *  to CCC (DECC) alignment (in 2^x).
       */
      #if defined( __DECC )
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_1          0
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_2          1
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_4          2
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_8          3
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_16         4
      #if defined( __alpha__ )
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_32         5
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_64         6
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_128        7
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_256        8
      #endif   /* __alpha__ */
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_512        9
      #if defined( __alpha__ )
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_1024       10
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_2048       11
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_4096       12
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_8192       13
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_16384      14
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_32768      15
      #define  DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_65536      16
      #endif   /* __alpha__ */
      #define  ALIGN(B)                   __align(DECC_ALIGN_BYTE_##B)
      #endif   /* __DECC */
      
      unsigned int ALIGN(2) i;  /* 2-byte alignment */
      

• February 11, 2013
• sysbench (0.4.12), build error with sysbench's private libtool. Replaced the private libtool with the libtool from /usr/bin after ./configure has run.

• March 26, 2013
• nmap (6.25), nmap bugs out with a floating point exception, probably due to Alpha not being IEEE-compliant. Adding -mieee flag to CCOPT variable in the main Makefile seems sufficient to resolve the problem.

• June 6, 2013
• guile (2.0.9), long build especially when guile compiler is busy. Total build time was about 2 hours.

• September 14, 2013
• wterm (6.2.9), ./configure script fails to determine utmp path correctly. Search for ac_cv_header_utmpx_h. There are two cases handling the utmp path (if/else clause). Both are identical expect for the number of utmp paths they check. So, to determine the utmp path, either make the if and else clause test the same utmp paths, or turn the else clause into a separate if clause. Also, need to setuid or setgid the wterm binary to an appropriate user or group such that the utmp file can be updated.

• October 16, 2013
• ncompress (4.2.4), when using the ./build script to generate a Makefile (genmake option), run ./build with a shell that does not support the modern command substitution syntax (i.e. $(some_cmd)). This kind of command substitution is used inside a HERE-document and causes some variables in the resulting Makefile to get "eliminated." The Makefile will fail to run. Also, compiler options need to be passed as "Special options..." (option 7), but only when a Makefile is to be generated. When using option c (Compile compress), the options set by "Compiler options" (option 5) will be used correctly.
  In either case though, I've added the compiler option -DNOFUNCDEF=1 to prevent "incompatible declaration" errors.
  Manually installed compress, uncompress (symlink) and their man pages.

• May 1, 2014
• lshw (B.02.17), added optimization level 2. Removed pci.ids from variable DATAFILES because it's installed by pciutils package. Also changed the "install" target to install the DATAFILES in /usr/share.

• February 25, 2015
• xterm (223), mismatching include-guard name. File xutf8.h may trigger a preprocessor error due to an incorrect name of the _XLIB_H_ conditional. The related header file, X11/Xlib.h, probably uses _X11_XLIB_H_ as the name of its include-guard.
• rstart (1.0.5), error in ./configure script. Line 10435 defines the variable configdir:

  
      configdir=$(sysconfdir)/X11/rstart
      

  The variable value contains a command substitution whereas a parameter substitution is intendent. Remove parenthesis or replace them with braces.

• March 12, 2015
• abiword (2.8.6), the main edit screen shows a very small cursor and text is misaligned. This is due to some missing TrueType fonts. Installing the font package liberation-ttf fixed the problem.

• March 16, 2015
• xpaint (2.7.6), mismatching include-guard name. In file image.h the struct imageprocessinfo is enclosed by the preprocessor directive #ifdef _XLIB_H_. This may trigger a build error due to an incorrect name of the _XLIB_H_ conditional. The related header file, X11/Xlib.h, probably uses _X11_XLIB_H_ as the name of its include-guard, so need to adjust image.h.
• xv (3.10a), disabled PNG support because libpng15.patch failed. Also note that in the Makefile, the variable LIBDIR specifies the location of the documentation.

• September 16, 2015
• nagios-plugins (1.4.9), undefined identifier NAMEDATALEN in plugins/check_pgsql.c:72 (PostgreSQL plugin). Using Postgres version 9.2.3 and apparently the mentioned define moved to a different file. Fixed by adding the following line to plugins/check_pgsql.c:
  
  #include <pg_config_manual.h>

• September 17, 2015
• nrpe (2.8.1), there's a typo in the ./configure script related to the option --with-nagios-group. Setting a group with this option is not honoured due to a typo in a variable name. Edit the ./configure script at line 6157. Rename variable nagios_grp to nagios_group.

• November 15, 2015
• lame (3.99.5), build system detects the presence of ccc and uses it to compile source files but uses gcc when linking a shared library. Some command options specific to ccc are passed to gcc which causes a link failure. As a workaround I've disabled building shared libraries (--disable-shared).

• February 17, 2016
• id3lib (3.8.3), ./configure script checks for incorrect header file iomanip.h; this file is called iomanip. libc functions memmove() and memcpy() not found in the files include/id3/id3lib_strings.h and include/id3/writers.h. Include header file string.h in these files. In file examples/test_io.cpp the std namespace is missing for cin, hex, and dec.

• August 20, 2016
• WindowMaker (0.95.7), if X11 libraries have been installed in a non-standard location then the ./configure script may fail the tests for XShape, XShm, Xmu, and RandR. The tests do not take into account the search paths for X11 libraries/includes specified by the --x-includes and --x-libraries flags. Use this patch to fix. In addition, a non-standard X11 location causes the linker to fail on libWMaker.so.1 due to being unable to find libX11. Linking can continue without this library. In file wmlib/Makefile, locate the definition of libWMaker_la_LIBADD (line 374) and remove the X11 library (-lX11).
• gimp (2.8.2), SIGFPE problems. Added -mieee to CFLAGS during package configuration.

• December 29, 2016
• console-tools (0.2.3), updated config.guess and config.sub since they did not recognize ev67 CPU.
• In kbdtools/showkey.c, line 269, added a break keyword for the default clause of the switch statement.
• In contrib/codepage.c, line 230, fixed quoting.

• January 31, 2017
• amanda (2.5.1p3), requires static Kerberos libraries, but this caused a build error with libcom_err.a. In the ./configure script the list of (static) Kerberos libraries is set. This can be changed to a list of -l options of the correct Kerberos libraries. For Kerberos 5, search the ./configure script for the variable assignments of K5CRYPTO, K5SUPPORT, and KRB5LIBS, and convert to a -l option.
  Note: version 2.5.1p3 has connection problems with Kerberos; moving to version 2.5.2p1 seem to resolve these problems.