Error: Make of GNU sort failed

[CRD44]

Hi,
I am trying to install orderedPainting, but when I run the setup.sh script I get the following error:

In file included from /home/c/cd277/.linuxbrew/include/sys/types.h:219:0,
from ./stdio.h:60,
from argv-iter.h:17,
from argv-iter.c:20:
./stdio.h:496:1: error: 'gets' undeclared here (not in a function)
_GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
^
make[2]: *** [argv-iter.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory /home/c/cd277/bin/orderedPainting/coreutils-8.11/lib' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /home/c/cd277/bin/orderedPainting/coreutils-8.11/lib'
make: *** [all] Error 2
GEN version.h
CC sort.o
In file included from /home/c/cd277/.linuxbrew/include/getopt.h:33:0,
from sort.c:25:
../lib/stdio.h:496:1: error: 'gets' undeclared here (not in a function)
_GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
^
make: *** [sort.o] Error 1
20171215_090104 Make of GNU sort failed

Do you know a way I can fix this problem?

[CFGrote]

Same problem here. Would be great to have more information on the build system used, @bioprojects (gcc version, glibc version, libstdc++ version etc.)

[bioprojects]

I have confirmed the error (that happens during complication of GNU sort), and fixed it by modifying and committing setup.sh.

Please try the following (included in the modified setup.sh):

URL=http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.11.tar.gz
wget ${URL}
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo_fail "Download failed. Please check the URL: ${URL}"
fi

tar xvfz coreutils-8.11.tar.gz
cd coreutils-8.11
CC=gcc
./configure CFLAGS=-O3
cd ./lib
perl -i -pe 's/_GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, ///_GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets/g' stdio.h
make
cd ../src
make version.h
make sort

[CFGrote]

thanks @bioprojects for the quick response. I will try your suggested fix.

May I ask, why does the project depend on this particular version of coreutils? Are other versions (of sort) leading to errors? Maybe this can be fixed upstream?

[bioprojects]

During the development of orderedPainting, I tested only version 8.11 of GNU sort,
but newer versions would also work.

[CFGrote]

I checked with version 9.1 which seems to be working ok.

[CFGrote]

imho, we can close this issue, thanks again @bioprojects