[tor-relays] Can't compile 0.4.6.5 on Ubuntu 18.04

[Georg Koppen]

William Denton:
> I went to upgrade a relay running on Ubuntu 18.04 to the new release
> (0.4.6.5) and to my surprise it didn't compile.  Every other version has
> built without any trouble.  Wading into the Gitlab site was rather
> confusing, so I thought I'd send this here, in the hopes it reaches the
> right people and someone else might be interested.
> 
> I ran ./configure, then make, and pretty soon this happened:
> 
>   CC       src/feature/dirclient/dirclient.o
> In file included from ./src/core/or/or.h:50:0,
>                  from src/feature/dirclient/dirclient.c:13:
> src/feature/dirclient/dirclient.c: In function
> ‘dir_client_decompress_response_body’:
> ./src/lib/log/ratelim.h:55:27: error: initializer element is not constant
>  #define RATELIM_INIT(r) { (r), 0, 0, 0 }
>                            ^
> src/feature/dirclient/dirclient.c:1877:38: note: in expansion of macro
> ‘RATELIM_INIT’
>      static ratelim_t warning_limit = RATELIM_INIT(LOG_INTERVAL);
>                                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> ./src/lib/log/ratelim.h:55:27: note: (near initialization for
> ‘warning_limit.rate’)
>  #define RATELIM_INIT(r) { (r), 0, 0, 0 }
>                            ^
> src/feature/dirclient/dirclient.c:1877:38: note: in expansion of macro
> ‘RATELIM_INIT’
>      static ratelim_t warning_limit = RATELIM_INIT(LOG_INTERVAL);
>                                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> Makefile:12141: recipe for target 'src/feature/dirclient/dirclient.o'
> failed
> make[1]: *** [src/feature/dirclient/dirclient.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/tor/tor-0.4.6.5'

Looks like a known issue:

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40410

Georg

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bill
> 
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