Open Bug 2012313 Opened 15 hours ago Updated 15 hours ago

Build failure with glibc-2.43

Categories

(NSS :: Build, defect)

Product:
NSS
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: rudi, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.2 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to reproduce:

Patch to 3.120 to fix the error assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer is below

From fdf0a91b19b4cb5616c596faa372ae4365839225 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rudi Heitbaum <rudi@heitbaum.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 03:32:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix build with glibc-2.43 assignment discards 'const'
qualifier from pointer

Fixes:
In file included from lowhash_vector.c:65:
genload.c: In function 'loader_LoadLibInReferenceDir':
genload.c:92:7: error: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
92 | c = strrchr(referencePath, PR_GetDirectorySeparator());
| ^

Signed-off-by: Rudi Heitbaum <rudi@heitbaum.com>

lib/freebl/genload.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/freebl/genload.c b/lib/freebl/genload.c
index 832deb58c..e3231e3e5 100644
--- a/lib/freebl/genload.c
+++ b/lib/freebl/genload.c
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ loader_LoadLibInReferenceDir(const char* referencePath, const char* name)
{
PRLibrary* dlh = NULL;
char* fullName = NULL;

  • char* c;

  • const char* c;
    PRLibSpec libSpec;

    /* Remove the trailing filename from referencePath and add the new one */
    --
    2.51.0

Actual results:

In file included from lowhash_vector.c:65:
genload.c: In function 'loader_LoadLibInReferenceDir':
genload.c:92:7: error: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
92 | c = strrchr(referencePath, PR_GetDirectorySeparator());
| ^

Expected results:

Successful compile


From fdf0a91b19b4cb5616c596faa372ae4365839225 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rudi Heitbaum <rudi@heitbaum.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 03:32:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix build with glibc-2.43 assignment discards 'const'
 qualifier from pointer

Fixes:
    In file included from lowhash_vector.c:65:
    genload.c: In function 'loader_LoadLibInReferenceDir':
    genload.c:92:7: error: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
       92 |     c = strrchr(referencePath, PR_GetDirectorySeparator());
          |       ^

Signed-off-by: Rudi Heitbaum <rudi@heitbaum.com>
---
 lib/freebl/genload.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/freebl/genload.c b/lib/freebl/genload.c
index 832deb58c..e3231e3e5 100644
--- a/lib/freebl/genload.c
+++ b/lib/freebl/genload.c
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ loader_LoadLibInReferenceDir(const char* referencePath, const char* name)
 {
     PRLibrary* dlh = NULL;
     char* fullName = NULL;
-    char* c;
+    const char* c;
     PRLibSpec libSpec;
 
     /* Remove the trailing filename from referencePath and add the new one */
-- 
2.51.0
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