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-rw-r--r--var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libiconv/gets.patch13
-rw-r--r--var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libiconv/package.py4
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libiconv/gets.patch b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libiconv/gets.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7c4b5562ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libiconv/gets.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- a/srclib/stdio.in.h
++++ b/srclib/stdio.in.h
+@@ -692,10 +692,6 @@
+ # undef gets
+ # endif
+ _GL_CXXALIASWARN (gets);
+-/* It is very rare that the developer ever has full control of stdin,
+- so any use of gets warrants an unconditional warning. Assume it is
+- always declared, since it is required by C89. */
+-_GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
+ #endif
+
+
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libiconv/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libiconv/package.py
index f2eeb07b26..982929b80a 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libiconv/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libiconv/package.py
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ class Libiconv(Package):
version('1.14', 'e34509b1623cec449dfeb73d7ce9c6c6')
+ # We cannot set up a warning for gets(), since gets() is not part
+ # of C11 any more and thus might not exist.
+ patch("gets.patch")
+
def install(self, spec, prefix):
configure('--prefix={0}'.format(prefix),
'--enable-extra-encodings')