[squid-users] Error during build of version 7.1 from sources

[Francesco Chemolli]

ah, my bad: it's not SNMP, but ssl.
Do you need openssl? Can you install a more modern version of openssl
on your system for squid?

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM alex ' <moizakuski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good afternoon!
> Disabling snmp during assembly did not affect, the error remains.
> An error occurs while processing the file ./src/ssl/gadgets.cc
> I'm not sure if this applies to SNMP.
> error: invalid conversion from 'const ASN1_STRING*' {aka 'const
> asn1_string_st*'} to 'ASN1_STRING*' {aka 'asn1_string_st*'}
> [-fpermissive]
> error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*' [-fpermissive]
> The above errors seem to be of the same type and indicate who the
> compiler expects other variables. Perhaps the compiler needs to put a
> pointer to another place, or how to declare the type of the variable?
>
> сб, 13 сент. 2025 г. в 14:41, Francesco Chemolli <gkinkie at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Do you need snmp? If you don't, maybe it's enough to disable that
> > functionality by replacing --enable-snmp with --disable-snmp.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM alex ' <moizakuski at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Good afternoon!
> > > I tried to build on the most modern kernel and the latest version of
> > > the compiler running the Fedora 41 operating system - it is assembled
> > > without errors. The question here is precisely that it is necessary to
> > > build and update the version on the existing server. I use the
> > > following keys for assembly:
> > > --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
> > > --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin
> > > --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share
> > > --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64
> > > --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --sharedstatedir=/var/lib
> > > --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
> > > --libexecdir=/usr/lib64/squid --datadir=/usr/share/squid
> > > --sysconfdir=/etc/squid --with-logdir=/var/log/squid
> > > --with-pidfile=/var/run/squid.pid --disable-dependency-tracking
> > > --enable-eui --enable-follow-x-forwarded-for --enable-auth
> > > --enable-auth-basic=DB,fake,getpwnam,LDAP,NCSA,PAM,POP3,RADIUS,SASL,SMB
> > > --enable-auth-ntlm=fake --enable-auth-digest=file,LDAP
> > > --enable-auth-negotiate=kerberos,wrapper
> > > --enable-external-acl-helpers=LDAP_group,time_quota,session,unix_group,wbinfo_group,kerberos_ldap_group
> > > --enable-storeid-rewrite-helpers=file --enable-cache-digests
> > > --enable-cachemgr-hostname=localhost --enable-delay-pools
> > > --enable-epoll --enable-icap-client --enable-ident-lookups
> > > --enable-linux-netfilter --enable-removal-policies=heap,lru
> > > --enable-snmp --enable-ssl --enable-ssl-crtd
> > > --enable-storeio=aufs,diskd,ufs,rock --enable-diskio --enable-wccpv2
> > > --disable-esi --enable-ecap --with-aio --with-default-user=squid
> > > --with-dl --with-openssl --with-included-ltdl --with-pthreads
> > > --disable-arch-native --disable-security-cert-validators
> > > --disable-strict-error-checking --with-swapdir=/var/spool/squid
> > > --enable-translation build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
> > > host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
> > >
> > > чт, 11 сент. 2025 г. в 12:47, Francesco Chemolli <gkinkie at gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >   Centos-6 has been EOLed years ago. Any chance for you to test on a
> > > > more modern version of the OS?
> > > > Also, could you share the configure flags you used?
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM alex ' <moizakuski at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Good afternoon! To build version 7.1, the gcc compiler version 9.1.1
> > > > > is used. The compiler returned an error during the build process:
> > > > >
> > > > > gadgets.cc: In function 'std::optional<SBuf> ParseAsUtf8(const ASN1_STRING&)':
> > > > > gadgets.cc:483:67: error: invalid conversion from 'const ASN1_STRING*'
> > > > > {aka 'const asn1_string_st*'} to 'ASN1_STRING*' {aka
> > > > > 'asn1_string_st*'} [-fpermissive]
> > > > >   483 |     const auto conversionResult =
> > > > > ASN1_STRING_to_UTF8(&utfBuffer, &asnBuffer);
> > > > >       |
> > > > >    ^~~~~~~~~~
> > > > >       |                                                                   |
> > > > >       |
> > > > >    const ASN1_STRING* {aka const asn1_string_st*}
> > > > > In file included from ../../compat/openssl.h:29,
> > > > >                  from ../../src/security/LockingPointer.h:18,
> > > > >                  from ../../src/security/forward.h:15,
> > > > >                  from ../../src/security/ErrorDetail.h:15,
> > > > >                  from ../../src/security/Io.h:13,
> > > > >                  from gadgets.cc:15:
> > > > > /usr/include/openssl/asn1.h:1000:59: note:   initializing argument 2
> > > > > of 'int ASN1_STRING_to_UTF8(unsigned char**, ASN1_STRING*)'
> > > > >  1000 | int ASN1_STRING_to_UTF8(unsigned char **out, ASN1_STRING *in);
> > > > >       |                                              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~
> > > > > gadgets.cc: In function 'bool addAltNameWithSubjectCn(Security::CertPointer&)':
> > > > > gadgets.cc:551:95: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to
> > > > > 'char*' [-fpermissive]
> > > > >   551 |     const auto ext = X509V3_EXT_conf_nid(nullptr, nullptr,
> > > > > NID_subject_alt_name, altName.c_str());
> > > > >       |
> > > > >                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~
> > > > >       |
> > > > >                                |
> > > > >       |
> > > > >                                const char*
> > > > > In file included from ../../src/ssl/gadgets.h:34,
> > > > >                  from ../../src/AccessLogEntry.h:31,
> > > > >                  from ../../src/auth/UserRequest.h:14,
> > > > >                  from ../../src/HttpRequest.h:24,
> > > > >                  from ../../src/ssl/ErrorDetailManager.h:13,
> > > > >                  from ../../src/security/ErrorDetail.h:19,
> > > > >                  from ../../src/security/Io.h:13,
> > > > >                  from gadgets.cc:15:
> > > > > /usr/include/openssl/x509v3.h:613:28: note:   initializing argument 4
> > > > > of 'X509_EXTENSION* X509V3_EXT_conf_nid(lhash_st_CONF_VALUE*,
> > > > > X509V3_CTX*, int, char*)'
> > > > >   613 |         int ext_nid, char *value);
> > > > >       |                      ~~~~~~^~~~~
> > > > >
> > > > > I build on CentOS 6.10 with and using the latest devtoolset-9 package
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> > > >     Francesco
> >
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    Francesco