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

From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 13, 2025, 04:23 UTC
Message-ID: <3ecxwlvjbamg7shdnmvps2y7rszsxeqvkkox5lt5zshk5qi5z6@exwlj2brax27>
In-Reply-To: <24c4c6f4-00bb-400f-b315-bbc5e81983cb@ramsayjones.plus.com>

On Sun, Jul 13, 2025 at 12:30:59AM -0800, Ramsay Jones wrote:

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> 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?
> [snip]
> 
> 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=

this would probably not work, because of the overrides in config.mak.uname and config.mak.autogen, so config.mak is better:

$ make clean $ echo "CSPRNG_METHOD=" > config.make $ make

Carlo