Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] db: Pin to use C99 std

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Fri Apr 10, 2026 at 3:15 PM CEST, Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> On Tue, 2026-04-07 at 21:47 -0700, Khem Raj via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
>> GCC-15 has switched to using C23 by default, we have been selectively
>> disabling warnings as errors to get by, however with autoconf 2.72 adding
>> -std=gnu23 it now gets enabled for every compiler and clang-22 is more
>> obidient and has dropped support for K&R C completely. db5 code has a lot
>> of K&R C prototypes and it starts to fail vigorously. We can not keep
>> working around with out uplifting sources to be compliant with newer C
>> standard like C23.
>> 
>> Therefore pin the cflags to use C99 standard as this package expects.
>> 
>> Drop the code to disable warnings as errors selectively.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <khem.raj@oss.qualcomm.com>
>> ---
>>  meta/recipes-support/db/db_5.3.28.bb | 9 ++++-----
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> This seemed to trigger failures for me, e.g.:
>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/74/builds/3538#bb-step-15
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard

This is because the patch is touching lines ending with spaces, and
these spaces have not been kept in the mail.

I tweaked the patch to make it work correctly, it landed in my -success
branch.

Thanks,
Mathieu


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