QA issue with dev-util/boost-build-1.65.0 Gentoo package

[ghost]

My GNU/Linux distribution is Gentoo Linux.

The Portage package manager reports the following warning message when building dev-util/boost-build-1.65.0:

 * QA Notice: Package triggers severe warnings which indicate that it
 *            may exhibit random runtime failures.
 * execcmd.c:120:5: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘out_printf’; did you mean ‘lol_print’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
 * jam.c:669:5: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘exec_done’; did you mean ‘regex_done’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
 * make.c:105:5: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘exec_init’; did you mean ‘lol_init’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
 * make.c:136:13: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘out_printf’; did you mean ‘lol_print’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
 * filesys.c:360:10: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘filelist_empty’; did you mean ‘filelist_next’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
 * modules/path.c:16:12: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘file_query’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
 * fileunix.c:236:10: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘filelist_empty’; did you mean ‘filelist_next’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
 * fileunix.c:238:14: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘file_collect_archive_content_’; did you mean ‘file_collect_dir_content_’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]

 * Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA
 * issues directly to the upstream developers of this software.
 * Homepage: http://www.boost.org/doc/tools/build/index.html

I also attached the full build log.

build.log

[swatanabe]

AMDG I'm not sure why this would happen. The headers containing these declarations are #included and I've never seen these warnings from my own builds. The only thing I can think of is that the header might have been hijacked somehow and actually #includes a totally unrelated file instead. (output.h, execcmd.h, filesys.h) In Christ, Steven Watanabe

[stale]

Thank you for your contributions. Main development of B2 has moved to https://github.com/bfgroup/b2
This issue has been automatically marked as "transition" to indicate the potential for needing transition to the new B2 development project.

[t3sting3]

It is a breaking error using:
Apple clang version 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.3)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin21.6.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode_13.1.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin

trying to compile boost 1.65.1 (i need to build something that requires this specific lib, and it breaks:

fileunix.c:238:14: error: implicit declaration of function 'file_collect_archive_content_' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
        if ( file_collect_archive_content_( archive ) < 0 )
             ^
fileunix.c:238:14: note: did you mean 'file_collect_dir_content_'?
fileunix.c:110:5: note: 'file_collect_dir_content_' declared here
int file_collect_dir_content_( file_info_t * const d )
    ^
1 error generated.

[grafikrobot]

Boost 1.65.1 supported up to Apple clang 8.1.0.