Time to update fetchmail. Questing isn't LTS, so the best time to update is now.
You're building 6.4.39, fetchmail is at release 6.5.4, and 6.5.0 has fixed this
particular issue.
The reason is one of the configure checks no longer works with modern
compilers (arguably the test code was ill-formed but older compilers
didn't assume that T f() was T f(void), probably because they operated
for older language standards by default), and breaks:
configure:11620: checking use of void pointer type
configure:11636: gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5
conftest.c: In function 'main':
conftest.c:98:18: error: too many arguments to function 'xmalloc'; expected 0,
have 1
98 | p = (char *) xmalloc(1);
| ^~~~~~~ ~
conftest.c:97:11: note: declared here
97 | void *xmalloc();
| ^~~~~~~
configure:11636: $? = 1
and that leaves the HAVE_VOIDPOINTER undefined in config.h, causing the
mismatch. It was an attemped workaround for antediluvian systems, which are
EOL or extinct now.
Note that fetchmail 6.4.X versions are no longer supported. I am not suggesting
workarounds for those. You're on your own. Let me know if the newest 6.5.X
gives you troubles. It follows a stable-branch approach where patches on the
same MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH version are compatible and are usually applicable even
by conservative distros.
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