#1066334 acedb: FTBFS: acein.c:2045:15: error: implicit declaration of function ‘add_history’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Package:
src:acedb
Source:
src:acedb
Submitter:
Lucas Nussbaum
Date:
2025-08-11 15:23:50 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1066334#5
Date:
2024-03-13 11:47:35 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
on amd64.

This is most likely caused by a change in dpkg 1.22.6, that enabled
-Werror=implicit-function-declaration. For more information, see
https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS#A2024-03-13_-Werror.3Dimplicit-function-declaration

Relevant part (hopefully):
The full build log is available from:
http://qa-logs.debian.net/2024/03/13/acedb_4.9.39+dfsg.02-9_unstable.log

All bugs filed during this archive rebuild are listed at:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-20240313;users=lucas@debian.org
or:
https://udd.debian.org/bugs/?release=na&merged=ign&fnewerval=7&flastmodval=7&fusertag=only&fusertagtag=ftbfs-20240313&fusertaguser=lucas@debian.org&allbugs=1&cseverity=1&ctags=1&caffected=1#results

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

If you reassign this bug to another package, please mark it as 'affects'-ing
this package. See https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#affects

If you fail to reproduce this, please provide a build log and diff it with mine
so that we can identify if something relevant changed in the meantime.

#1066334#10
Date:
2024-04-13 07:31:07 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

while I was able to fix the origininal cause of the failure I'm now blocked by
some issue that cython seems to miss adding some
   #include <lex.h>
but I have no idea how to accomplish this.  The Salsa CI build log[1] says:

...
y.tab.c: In function 'yyparse':
y.tab.c:1409:16: error: implicit declaration of function 'yylex' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
y.tab.c:2185:7: error: implicit declaration of function 'yyerror'; did you mean 'YYerror'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
In file included from aqlparse.y:335:
aqlparse.l: In function 'yylex':
...

Any help would be welcome
    Andreas.


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/acedb/-/jobs/5580840

#1066334#17
Date:
2024-04-13 20:48:07 UTC
From:
To:
You are missing declarations:

 * `yylex`   - this needs to be added to the yacc source
 * `yyerror` - this is present but hidden by a CPP conditional
 * `yywrap`  - this is not needed (grep for "YY_SKIP_YYWRAP") and can be
               disabled

Patch attached.

You can find more info about all three in the flex and bison manuals.

J.

#1066334#22
Date:
2024-04-13 21:46:17 UTC
From:
To:
I attach a fix for the next error:

  gcc -g -Wall  -DACEDB4 `../w3rdparty/include-config glib-2.0 gtk+-2.0`  -I.. -I../wh -I../wstaden -DACEDB_GTK -DLINUX -c -o sigsubs.o sigsubs.c
  sigsubs.c: In function 'getSignalText':
  sigsubs.c:486:30: error: '_sys_siglist' undeclared (first use in this function)
    486 |   char **signal_textlist = &(_sys_siglist[0]) ;
        |                              ^~~~~~~~~~~~
  sigsubs.c:486:30: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in

The one after this looks like a GTK problem, and that's the point at
which I bow out.

J.

#1066334#27
Date:
2024-04-14 05:17:41 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Jeremy,

Am Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 10:46:17PM +0100 schrieb Jeremy Sowden:

Thanks a lot for your help so far.  Your patches are pushed to Git.

Kind regards
   Andreas.

#1066334#32
Date:
2024-04-14 08:38:40 UTC
From:
To:
H again,

Am Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 07:17:41AM +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille:
not were connected to GTK) but I'm now stumbling upon:

...
In file included from disknew.c:85:
../whooks/systags.h:57:15: error: expected identifier before numeric constant
   57 | #define _Int  24
      |               ^~
../wh/acetypes.h:36:16: note: in expansion of macro '_Int'
   36 | typedef enum { _Int, _Text, _Float, _DateType, _Key, _Tag } AceType;
      |                ^~~~
...


which is caused by whooks/systags.h[2]

...
#define _Int  24
#define _Unsigned  25
#define _Long  26               /* not supported */
#define _Long_Unsigned  27      /* not supported */
#define _Float  28
...

Is there any trick I could use here instead of replacing these
definitions by something else like _Int_acedb or so globally to get this
build by modern compilers?

Kind regards
    Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/acedb/-/jobs/5586407#L1893
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/acedb/-/blob/master/whooks/systags.h?ref_type=heads#L57-61

#1066334#37
Date:
2024-09-29 14:47:21 UTC
From:
To:
Hi

I noticed the enum and the functions associated with the enum are
unused. You could just simply patch them out.
There are more errors after that though.

did
not were connected to GTK) but I'm now stumbling upon:

...
In file included from disknew.c:85:
../whooks/systags.h:57:15: error: expected identifier before numeric
constant
   57 | #define _Int  24
      |               ^~
../wh/acetypes.h:36:16: note: in expansion of macro '_Int'
   36 | typedef enum { _Int, _Text, _Float, _DateType, _Key, _Tag }
AceType;
      |                ^~~~
...


which is caused by whooks/systags.h[2]

...
#define _Int  24
#define _Unsigned  25
#define _Long  26               /* not supported */
#define _Long_Unsigned  27      /* not supported */
#define _Float  28
...

Is there any trick I could use here instead of replacing these
definitions by something else like _Int_acedb or so globally to get this
build by modern compilers?

Kind regards
    Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/acedb/-/jobs/5586407#L1893
[2]
https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/acedb/-/blob/master/whooks/systags.h?ref_type=heads#L57-61

#1066334#42
Date:
2024-10-08 08:32:11 UTC
From:
To:
I had a look at what happened to AceDB and it seems like it is now hosted on
https://github.com/ncbi/AceView/blob/master/w9/dotter.c
at least the dotter application that is. I find that tool of high (and underrated)
educational and practical value and would not want to miss that.

I will not get around comparing the source trees for an unforseeable future, though.

Best,
Steffen