[gentoo-user] About procmail and getline

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Trying to install procmail I hit a known bug:

   http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270551

And from emerge:
  [...]
  In file included from formail.c:25:
  formisc.h:20: error: conflicting types for 'getline'
  /usr/include/stdio.h:651: error: previous declaration of 'getline'
  was here
  make[1]: *** [formail.o] Error 1
  make[1]: Leaving directory
  `/var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/procmail-3.22-r10/work/procmail-3.22/src'

What I'm not understanding is why the current procmail is not flagged
in some way... or why its still not fixed and is buggy to install with
most recent OS and most recent tools.

Its not, apparently a local phenomina, if its a known bug.  Or are
there people who have been able to install procmail with no problems
using current tools?

Even downloading the tar ball and building outside of emerge I hit the
getline problem, so apparently something incompatible there.

There is a patch offered but still one would think using standard
emerge on a package that is outside the `~' daredevil stage and is not
masked, it should `just work' [tm].