[MESOS-9302] Mesos fails to build on Fedora 28

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Component/s: build
• Labels: build-failure

Environment

gcc (GCC) 8.1.1 20180712 (Red Hat 8.1.1-5)
Fedora 28

• Sprint: Mesosphere RI-6 Sprint 2018-31
• Story Points: 2
• Assignee: Benno Evers
• Reporter: Benno Evers
• Shepherd: Benjamin Bannier
• Created: 09/Oct/18 12:57
• Updated: 29/Apr/19 09:27
• Resolved: 19/Oct/18 07:37

Description

Trying to compile a fresh Mesos checkout on a Fedora 28 system with the following configuration flags:

../configure --enable-debug --enable-optimize --disable-java --disable-python --disable-libtool-wrappers --enable-ssl --enable-libevent --disable-werror

and the following compiler

[[e-mail]1 build]$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 8.1.1 20180712 (Red Hat 8.1.1-5)
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

fails the build due to two warnings (even though --disable-werror was passed):

make[4]: Entering directory '/home/bevers/mesos/build/3rdparty/grpc-1.10.0'
[C]       Compiling third_party/cares/cares/ares_init.c
third_party/cares/cares/ares_init.c: In function ‘ares_dup’:
third_party/cares/cares/ares_init.c:301:17: error: argument to ‘sizeof’ in ‘strncpy’ call is the same expression as the source; did you mean to use the size of the destination? [-Werror=sizeof-pointer-memaccess]
           sizeof(src->local_dev_name));
                 ^
third_party/cares/cares/ares_init.c: At top level:
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-Wno-invalid-source-encoding’ [-Werror]
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[4]: *** [Makefile:2635: /home/bevers/mesos/build/3rdparty/grpc-1.10.0/objs/opt/third_party/cares/cares/ares_init.o] Error 1