On Mon, 2026-02-16 at 11:40 -0500, Tony Battersby via
lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> gcc 15 switches the default from -std=gnu17 to -std=gnu23, which causes
> multiple errors compiling texinfo:
> 
> texinfo-7.2/info/terminal.c:164:7:
>   error: too many arguments to function 'tputs'; expected 0, have 3
> etc.
> 
> My patch to fix the issue has been accepted upstream; backport it since
> texinfo 7.2 is still the latest release.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <[email protected]>

I wonder why you're seeing this error and we're not seeing it on the
autobuilder... termcap.h is provided by ncurses, which is listed in both
DEPENDS and DEPENDS:class-native in the recipe, so in theory you
shouldn't see the case where that file is not available during the
texinfo build.

Is the error seen when building texinfo for the target or
texinfo-native? And is there anything unique in terms of host distro,
local.conf, layers, etc that you think might be triggering this?

> ---
> 
> This needs to be applied to openembedded-core master and backported to
> whinlatter.
> 
> 
>  ...l.c-use-modern-prototypes-for-curses.patch | 35 +++++++++++++++++++
>  meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_7.2.bb  |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 
> meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo/0004-info-terminal.c-use-modern-prototypes-for-curses.patch
> 
> diff --git 
> a/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo/0004-info-terminal.c-use-modern-prototypes-for-curses.patch
>  
> b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo/0004-info-terminal.c-use-modern-prototypes-for-curses.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..4af4a0eb51
> --- /dev/null
> +++ 
> b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo/0004-info-terminal.c-use-modern-prototypes-for-curses.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
> +From 20ca4b10bd5f3aac55ff6bdfbb0c8debdb5cf380 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> +From: Tony Battersby <[email protected]>
> +Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:56:19 +0000
> +Subject: [PATCH] * info/terminal.c: use modern prototypes for curses
> +
> +This fixes compile errors with -std=gnu23 (which is the default
> +with gcc 15) on systems that do not have termcap.h.
> +
> +Upstream-Status: Backport 
> [https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/?id=20ca4b10bd5f3aac55ff6bdfbb0c8debdb5cf380]
> +
> +Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <[email protected]>
> +---
> +diff --git a/info/terminal.c b/info/terminal.c
> +index b1eb0ffd13..273a9ca48d 100644
> +--- a/info/terminal.c
> ++++ b/info/terminal.c
> +@@ -44,9 +44,12 @@
> + char *BC, *UP;
> + char PC;      /* Pad character */
> + short ospeed; /* Terminal output baud rate */
> +-extern int tgetnum (), tgetflag (), tgetent ();
> +-extern char *tgetstr (), *tgoto ();
> +-extern int tputs ();
> ++extern int tgetnum (char *id);
> ++extern int tgetflag (char *id);
> ++extern int tgetent (char *bp, const char *name);
> ++extern char *tgetstr (char *id, char **area);
> ++extern char *tgoto (const char *cap, int col, int row);
> ++extern int tputs (const char *str, int affcnt, int (*putc)(int));
> + #endif /* not HAVE_NCURSES_TERMCAP_H */
> + 
> + /* Function "hooks".  If you make one of these point to a function, that
> +-- 
> +2.43.0
> +
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_7.2.bb 
> b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_7.2.bb
> index 784f67f65b..20f316b8bf 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_7.2.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_7.2.bb
> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/texinfo/${BP}.tar.gz \
>             
> file://0001-texinfo-several-changes-to-build-without-zlib-and-nc.patch \
>             file://0001-Makefile.am-do-not-build-manpages.patch \
>             ${TARGET_PATCH} \
> +           
> file://0004-info-terminal.c-use-modern-prototypes-for-curses.patch \
>             "
>  
>  SRC_URI[sha256sum] = 
> "e86de7dfef6b352aa1bf647de3a6213d1567c70129eccbf8977706d9c91919c8"

-- 
Paul Barker

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