Re: git 2.50 and 2.50.1 src fails to compile in rhel 6

From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Date: Jul 12, 2025, 23:30 UTC
Message-ID: <24c4c6f4-00bb-400f-b315-bbc5e81983cb@ramsayjones.plus.com>
In-Reply-To: <1737451752344703@znolar4klagewshm.sas.yp-c.yandex.net>

On 12/07/2025 19:25, Азат Усманов wrote:

> I was able to apply the patch  sane-ctype.h  make did proceed until it stumbled  again, this time probably related to that path to random.h file I substituted earlier. Any thoughts?

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Wow, RHEL6! I think the oldest version we support is RHEL8.

[Moving header files from a newer glibc to RHEL6 is a definite no-no - don't do that!]

Here, your glibc version is too old for getrandom(), so you need to build with CSPRNG_METHOD= set either in your config.mak or on the make invocation, something like:

    make CSPRNG_METHOD=

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> wrapper.c: In function ‘csprng_bytes’:
> wrapper.c:782:23: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘getrandom’; did you mean ‘srandom’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>   782 |                 res = getrandom(p, len, 0);
>       |                       ^~~~~~~~~
>       |                       srandom

HTH.

ATB, Ramsay Jones