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

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

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