1.2.0 fails to build

[lightdot]

Using mock build environment on CentOS 8. Looks like an error when passing options to apxs:

make[1]: Entering directory '/builddir/build/BUILD/mod_maxminddb-1.2.0/src'
/usr/bin/apxs -c -Wl,-z,relro  -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -lmaxminddb  -Wc,"-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -std=c99 -fms-extensions"  mod_maxminddb.c
apxs:Error: Unknown option: s.
apxs:Error: Unknown option: s.
apxs:Error: Unknown option: =.
apxs:Error: Unknown option: /.
apxs:Error: Unknown option: u.
apxs:Error: Unknown option: s.
apxs:Error: Unknown option: r.
apxs:Error: Unknown option: /.
Usage: apxs -g [-S <var>=<val>] -n <modname>
       apxs -q [-v] [-S <var>=<val>] [<query> ...]
       apxs -c [-S <var>=<val>] [-o <dsofile>] [-D <name>[=<value>]]
               [-I <incdir>] [-L <libdir>] [-l <libname>] [-Wc,<flags>]
               [-Wl,<flags>] [-p] <files> ...
       apxs -i [-S <var>=<val>] [-a] [-A] [-n <modname>] <dsofile> ...
       apxs -e [-S <var>=<val>] [-a] [-A] [-n <modname>] <dsofile> ...
make[1]: Leaving directory '/builddir/build/BUILD/mod_maxminddb-1.2.0/src'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:405: module] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:336: all-recursive] Error 1

[oschwald]

As a stop gap, you could run apxs manually rather than through make. It doesn't like the -specs flag that is getting added on your machine.

[horgh]

Do you have any more information about how you're building this? I tried on CentOS 8 and I was able to build it successfully.

[horgh]

One thought is we may need to adjust the Makefile here to something like:

-Wl,"$(LDFLAGS) $(LIBMAXMINDDB_LDFLAGS)"

instead of the part that says

$(LDFLAGS) $(LIBMAXMINDDB_LDFLAGS)

You'd have to run ./bootstrap to regenerate things to try this.

[oschwald]

I am going to close this as we were not able to reproduce it. I'd be happy to re-open it if more occurrences or details emerge. Thanks!

[robert-scheck]

I experienced the same issue when packaging mod_maxminddb for Fedora and EPEL. The underlying issue is that the hardening compile-time flags are not properly passed through your Makefile etc. to axps. Building without hardening works, but is not acceptable for official Fedora RPM packages. Let me know if you need more details or a specific reproducer, please.

export CFLAGS='-O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1  -m64  -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection'
export CXXFLAGS='-O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1  -m64  -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection'
export FFLAGS='-O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1  -m64  -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -I/usr/lib64/gfortran/modules'
export FCFLAGS='-O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1  -m64  -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -I/usr/lib64/gfortran/modules'
export LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed  -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1  -Wl,--build-id=sha1 -Wl,-dT,/builddir/build/BUILD/mod_maxminddb-1.2.0/.package_note-mod_maxminddb-1.2.0-1.fc36.x86_64.ld'

[cztk]

One thought is we may need to adjust the Makefile here to something like:

-Wl,"$(LDFLAGS) $(LIBMAXMINDDB_LDFLAGS)"

instead of the part that says

$(LDFLAGS) $(LIBMAXMINDDB_LDFLAGS)

You'd have to run ./bootstrap to regenerate things to try this.

I can confirm.
While building a package on Ubuntu 20.04 was working fine, it began to fail on 22.04 with similar output what the OP wrote.

./bootstrap
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc --no-sign

was enough to produce the error.

Changing the src/Makefile.am accordingly fixed it and the .deb was build without issue. thx