# [PATCH] build: centos/RHEL 7 ships with an older gcc and zlib

1 messages from 2022-01-16 to 2022-01-16. Participants: David Aguilar.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/57255

## David Aguilar, 2022-01-16 02:05

Subject: [PATCH] build: centos/RHEL 7 ships with an older gcc and zlib
Message-ID: <20220116020520.26895-1-davvid@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20220116020520.26895-1-davvid%40gmail.com

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GCC 4.8.5 is the default system compiler on centos7/RHEL7.
This version requires -std=c99 to enable c99 support.

zlib 1.2.7 on centos7/rhel7 lacks uncompress2().

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
---
 config.mak.uname | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname
index 9b3e9bff5f..c48db45106 100644
--- a/config.mak.uname
+++ b/config.mak.uname
@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Linux)
 	PROCFS_EXECUTABLE_PATH = /proc/self/exe
 	HAVE_PLATFORM_PROCINFO = YesPlease
 	COMPAT_OBJS += compat/linux/procinfo.o
+	# centos7/rhel7 provides gcc 4.8.5 and zlib 1.2.7.
+	ifneq ($(findstring .el7.,$(uname_R)),)
+		BASIC_CFLAGS += -std=c99
+		NO_UNCOMPRESS2 = YesPlease
+	endif
 endif
 ifeq ($(uname_S),GNU/kFreeBSD)
 	HAVE_ALLOCA_H = YesPlease
-- 
2.30.1 (Apple Git-130)


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