Issue with mkdtemp() in port.h
A little while back some users started complaining that the contrib module
I develop (MADlib) was failing to build with the following error:
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/usr/include/postgresql/9.2/server/port.h:480:32: error: declaration of
'char* mkdtemp(char*)' has a different exception specifier
/usr/include/stdlib.h:663:14: error: from previous declaration 'char*
mkdtemp(char*) throw ()'
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After some research I've tracked this down to the following commit from ~4
months ago:
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https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/a919937f112eb2f548d5f9bd1b3a7298375e6380
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Which added a definition of mkdtemp into port.h that conflicts with the
definition in the system header files.
The following is a simple program that demonstrates the issue:
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bash$ cat /tmp/foo.cpp
#include "postgres.h"
int main() { return 0; }
bash$ gcc -o foo foo.cpp -I`pg_config --includedir-server` -pedantic
In file included from /usr/pgsql-9.2/include/server/c.h:860,
from /usr/pgsql-9.2/include/server/postgres.h:47,
from foo.cpp:1:
/usr/pgsql-9.2/include/server/port.h:479: error: declaration of ‘char*
mkdtemp(char*)’ throws different exceptions
/usr/include/stdlib.h:663: error: from previous declaration ‘char*
mkdtemp(char*) throw ()’
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Reproducible on ubuntu 14.04, centos6, and likely others.
Regards,
Caleb
Caleb Welton <cwelton@pivotal.io> writes:
A little while back some users started complaining that the contrib module
I develop (MADlib) was failing to build with the following error:
/usr/include/postgresql/9.2/server/port.h:480:32: error: declaration of
'char* mkdtemp(char*)' has a different exception specifier
/usr/include/stdlib.h:663:14: error: from previous declaration 'char*
mkdtemp(char*) throw ()'
After some research I've tracked this down to the following commit from ~4
months ago:
https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/a919937f112eb2f548d5f9bd1b3a7298375e6380
Hm. Looks like the extern that added should have been protected by
#ifndef HAVE_MKDTEMP
similarly to the other cases where we conditionally provide a substitute
function.
regards, tom lane
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