On 12/17/25 10:18 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote:
Hi there,
On Wed, 17 Dec 2025, jbk wrote:
...
Question: There is a patch by cbarrett in backuppc-4.4.0-20
that references issue #466 and is listed as closed around
July 2022. This issue does not appear in the change log for
backuppc-4.4.1rc1. Is this just an omission or does it still
need to be applied as a patch for this release candidate.
...
The fix is applied in 4.4.1rc1. It's in three places in
the code, one
in .../configure.pl and two in
.../lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm.
For things like this I recommend checking out the source
from Github
and then using 'gitk'. I find it invaluable. It's much
faster and,
at least here, much more reliable than trying to use Github.
If you do try gitk you'll see that until around October of
this year
the branch history was kindof a jumble. Hopefully it's
under control
now. I *think* I've caught up with all the historic fixes
(including
one which first appeared in September 2012 but was then
lost in April
2013 - I reapplied it 13 years later). I'm very glad
you're looking
at these things. :)
I'm building the source for BackupPC-XS-0.63 in mock and I
get this error:
.........................................................................................
gcc -c -I. -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -flto=auto
-ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches
-pipe -Wall -Wno-complain-wrong-lang -Werror=format-security
-Wp,-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3
-Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS
-specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1
-fstack-protector-strong
-specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64
-march=x86-64-v3 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
-fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -mtls-dialect=gnu2
-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g
-DVERSION=\"0.63\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.63\" -fPIC
"-I/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE" BackupPC_XS.c
In file included from BackupPC_XS.xs:27:
./backuppc.h:25:10: fatal error: zlib.h: No such file or
directory
25 | #include <zlib.h> /* 2025.11.12: Use the
system-provided zlib. == GWH == */
| ^~~~~~~~
..........................................................................................
Installed on the base system is:
[jbk@rl10vm ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i zlib
zlib-ng-compat-2.2.3-2.el10.x86_64
zlib-ng-compat-devel-2.2.3-2.el10.x86_64
perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.212-513.el10_1.x86_64
............................................................................................
I just checked the build environment and zlib.h is not
installed. I don't know if that is a deficiency in the build
spec or not. This is all trial and error on my part.
--
Jim KR
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