coreutils-8.26, undefined reference to `__asprintf_chk'

bastl · 03-04-2017, 02:39 PM

Compiling coreutils-8.26 with gcc-6.3.0 and linux-4.8.12,
I get this error:

Quote:

AR src/libver.a
AR lib/libcoreutils.a
CCLD src/chroot
CCLD src/nice
CCLD src/who
CCLD src/hostid
CCLD src/users
src/who.o: In function `asprintf':
/usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:178: undefined reference to `__asprintf_chk'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

asprintf is defined in stdio2.h here:

Code:

156 ...
# ifdef __USE_GNU

extern int __asprintf_chk (char **__restrict __ptr, int __flag,
			   const char *__restrict __fmt, ...)
     __THROW __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 3, 4))) __wur;
extern int __vasprintf_chk (char **__restrict __ptr, int __flag,
			    const char *__restrict __fmt, _G_va_list __arg)
     __THROW __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 3, 0))) __wur;
extern int __obstack_printf_chk (struct obstack *__restrict __obstack,
				 int __flag, const char *__restrict __format,
				 ...)
     __THROW __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 3, 4)));
extern int __obstack_vprintf_chk (struct obstack *__restrict __obstack,
				  int __flag,
				  const char *__restrict __format,
				  _G_va_list __args)
     __THROW __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 3, 0)));

#  ifdef __va_arg_pack
__fortify_function int
__NTH (asprintf (char **__restrict __ptr, const char *__restrict __fmt, ...))
{
  return __asprintf_chk (__ptr, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1, __fmt,
			 __va_arg_pack ());
}

__fortify_function int
__NTH (__asprintf (char **__restrict __ptr, const char *__restrict __fmt,
		   ...))
{
  return __asprintf_chk (__ptr, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1, __fmt,
			 __va_arg_pack ());
}

__fortify_function int
__NTH (obstack_printf (struct obstack *__restrict __obstack,
		       const char *__restrict __fmt, ...))
{
  return __obstack_printf_chk (__obstack, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1, __fmt,
			       __va_arg_pack ());
}
#  elif !defined __cplusplus
#   define asprintf(ptr, ...) \
  __asprintf_chk (ptr, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1, __VA_ARGS__)
#   define __asprintf(ptr, ...) \
  __asprintf_chk (ptr, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1, __VA_ARGS__)
#   define obstack_printf(obstack, ...) \
  __obstack_printf_chk (obstack, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1, __VA_ARGS__)
#  endif
204 ...

It seams that coreutils does not need __asprintf_chk but linux in its files that are included.?
I think the question is what does linux expect to get the header definitions linked ? ....
O.K. it is glibc what else; the min. version I don`t know, but mine is to old for linux-4.8.12. Damn!

pan64 · 03-06-2017, 02:06 AM

__asprintf_chk is available in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (at least for me), so probably -lc helps, but I don't know what is really missing from where.
include files are used only compile time, they are not linked (those are the shared objects, the .so files).

bastl · 06-24-2017, 11:15 AM

Compiling coreutils worked with:

Quote:

export CFLAGS="-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0"

even with

Quote:

export CFLAGS="-g -O2 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1"

you'll get other checks fail.

so -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 worked for me.