buildroot compile of open vm tools - gcc

Question

I was trying to compile open-vm-toos package (9.0.0-782409) under buildroot env and it fails in one file. Below is log of the error. I narrowed it down on something to do with locale includes. Tried to doff standard locale includes vs those available under buildroot env, and there's no difference. Which include I'm missing (Maybe something to pass explicitly to CFLAGS to configure script of open-vm-tools)?
/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile /myRepository/repo/cai/buildroot/output/staging/usr/bin/i686-unknown-linux-uclibc-gcc -Os -pipe -Os -mtune=i686 -march=i686 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/myRepository/repo/cai/buildroot/output/staging/usr/include -I/myRepository/repo/cai/buildroot/output/staging/include --sysroot=/myRepository/repo/cai/buildroot/output/staging/ -isysroot /myRepository/repo/cai/buildroot/output/staging -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"open-vm-tools\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"open-vm-tools\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"8.4.2\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"open-vm-tools\ 8.4.2\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"open-vm-tools-devel#lists.sourceforge.net\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"open-vm-tools\" -DVERSION=\"8.4.2\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DLT_OBJDIR=\".libs/\" -DX_DISPLAY_MISSING=1 -DNO_PROCPS=1 -DNO_DNET=1 -DHAVE_CRYPT_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_WCHAR_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_IO_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SYSINFO_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_USER_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_VFS_H=1 -DHAVE_UNWIND_H=1 -DHAVE__BOOL=1 -DHAVE_STDBOOL_H=1 -DHAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_RDEV=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_LSEEK=1 -DNO_MULTIMON=1 -I. -I/myRepository/repo/cai/buildroot/output/build/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/lib/include -I/myRepository/repo/cai/buildroot/output/build/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/lib/include -DUSING_AUTOCONF=1 -DOPEN_VM_TOOLS -DVMX86_TOOLS -DNO_CORE_ICU -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DGLIBC_VERSION_21 -DGLIBC_VERSION_22 -I/myRepository/repo/cai/buildroot/output/staging/usr/include -I/myRepository/repo/cai/buildroot/output/build/usr/include -liconv -DNO_FLOATING_POINT -Wall -Werror -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused-value -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-uninitialized -MT codesetOld.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/codesetOld.Tpo -c -o codesetOld.lo codesetOld.c
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codesetOld.c: In function 'CodeSetOldGetCodeSetFromLocale':
codesetOld.c:728: error: '__locale_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
codesetOld.c:728: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
codesetOld.c:728: error: for each function it appears in.)
codesetOld.c:728: error: expected ';' before 'new'
codesetOld.c:729: error: 'new' undeclared (first use in this function)
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
codesetOld.c:736: error: implicit declaration of function '__newlocale'
codesetOld.c:739: error: implicit declaration of function '__nl_langinfo_l'
codesetOld.c:739: error: passing argument 2 of 'Util_SafeInternalStrdup' makes pointer from integer without a cast
codesetOld.c:740: error: implicit declaration of function '__freelocale'
make[5]: *** [codesetOld.lo] Error 1
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
Here's code snippet of file under error:
721 static char *
722 CodeSetOldGetCodeSetFromLocale(void)
723 {
724 char *codeset;
725
726 #if defined(__linux__)
727
728 locale_t new = newlocale(LC_CTYPE_MASK, "", NULL);
729 if (!new) {
730 /*
731 * If the machine is configured incorrectly (no current locale),
732 * newlocale() could return NULL. Try to fall back on the "C"
733 * locale.
734 */
735
736 new = newlocale(LC_CTYPE_MASK, "C", NULL);
737 ASSERT(new);
738 }
739 codeset = Util_SafeStrdup(nl_langinfo_l(CODESET, new));
740 freelocale(new);
741
742 #elif defined(sun)
743
744 char *locale = setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL);
745 if (!setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")) {

Answer 1

Enable locale support in your toolchain, then do a make clean; make all cycle.