Encountered a build error: "unrecognized command-line option '-Wp'" on Fedora 37

[heartofrain]

Describe the bug
When I was building LTFS on Fedora 37, I encountered a build error: unrecognized command-line option '-Wp'.

To Reproduce
Run the build command:

./autogen.sh
./configure
make

Then gcc complained:

cc1: error: unrecognized command-line option '-Wp'

in verbose:

/bin/sh ../../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../..  -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../../src -DLTFS_CONFIG_FILE='"/usr/local/etc/ltfs.conf"' -DLTFS_BASE_DIR='"NONE"' -DUSE_NEW_LOCKING  -D USE_UNORM2  -D USE_UNORM2 -I ..  -Wall -Wsign-compare -fsigned-char -I/usr/include/fuse -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/uuid -I/usr/include/libxml2 -D ENABLE_SNMP -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -fPIE -DNETSNMP_ENABLE_IPV6 -fno-strict-aliasing -DNETSNMP_REMOVE_U64 -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Wp,-Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -fPIE -Ulinux -Dlinux=linux -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE -I. -I/usr/include -fkeep-inline-functions -rdynamic -g -O2 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 -O0 -ggdb -MT libltfs_la-ltfs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libltfs_la-ltfs.Tpo -c -o libltfs_la-ltfs.lo `test -f 'ltfs.c' || echo './'`ltfs.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../../src -DLTFS_CONFIG_FILE=\"/usr/local/etc/ltfs.conf\" -DLTFS_BASE_DIR=\"NONE\" -DUSE_NEW_LOCKING -D USE_UNORM2 -D USE_UNORM2 -I .. -Wall -Wsign-compare -fsigned-char -I/usr/include/fuse -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/uuid -I/usr/include/libxml2 -D ENABLE_SNMP -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -DNETSNMP_ENABLE_IPV6 -fno-strict-aliasing -DNETSNMP_REMOVE_U64 -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Wp,-Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -Ulinux -Dlinux=linux -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE -I. -I/usr/include -fkeep-inline-functions -rdynamic -g -O2 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 -O0 -ggdb -MT libltfs_la-ltfs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libltfs_la-ltfs.Tpo -c ltfs.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libltfs_la-ltfs.o
cc1: error: unrecognized command-line option '-Wp'
cc1: error: unrecognized command-line option '-Wp'
cc1: error: unrecognized command-line option '-Wp'

Then I checked the Makefile and found an option:

-Wp,-Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS

There seems to be a redundant "-Wp", so I ran the command:

sed -i 's/-Wp,-Wp/-Wp/g' src/libltfs/Makefile \
    src/iosched/Makefile \
    src/utils/Makefile \
    src/kmi/Makefile \
    src/Makefile \
    src/tape_drivers/linux/sg/Makefile \
    src/tape_drivers/generic/itdtimg/Makefile \
    src/tape_drivers/generic/file/Makefile

Then I ran the build command again:

make

Then, LTFS was built successfully!

Desktop:
My Fedora, GCC, autoconf and automake versions:

$ uname -a
Linux fedora 6.2.9-200.fc37.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Mar 30 22:31:57 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 12.2.1 20221121 (Red Hat 12.2.1-4)
Copyright © 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.71
$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.16.5

LTFS source code version(commit hash): f95a9a4

Additional context
Given that the Makefile was generated by autotools, the real cause of the problem may be related to autotools configurations. Could you do a check? Thanks in advance!
I am very interested in how it happened.

[TulioLazarini]

Dear @heartofrain thanks for letting us know! I've came across your issue when I was trying to compile ltfs on Fedora 38, and got the -Wp issue as well. It was a different one this time, several Makefiles were generated with ',-Wp' rather than ' -Wp'. The extra comma before -Wp caused make to fail. I also used sed to correct all makefiles:

sed -i 's/,-Wp/ -Wp/g' src/libltfs/Makefile ./conf/Makefile ./init.d/Makefile ./man/Makefile ./messages/Makefile ./src/iosched/Makefile ./src/kmi/Makefile ./src/libltfs/Makefile ./src/tape_drivers/freebsd/cam/Makefile ./src/tape_drivers/generic/file/Makefile ./src/tape_drivers/generic/itdtimg/Makefile ./src/tape_drivers/linux/lin_tape/Makefile ./src/tape_drivers/linux/sg/Makefile ./src/tape_drivers/netbsd/scsipi-ibmtape/Makefile ./src/tape_drivers/osx/iokit/Makefile ./src/utils/Makefile ./src/Makefile ./Makefile

And I was able to build LTFS successfully, as well. It's a Fedora Workstation 38 (desktop) and these are the versions:

$ uname -a
Linux fedora 6.3.4-201.fc38.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat May 27 15:08:36 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 13.1.1 20230511 (Red Hat 13.1.1-2)
$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.71
$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.16.5

[TulioLazarini]

Dear @piste-jp-ibm good afternoon, just to let you know I've just cloned master branch and re-installed in Fedora 40 successfully, however we still need to tweak the auto-generated Makefiles by using the following command after configure:

sed -i 's/,-Wp/ -Wp/g' src/libltfs/Makefile ./conf/Makefile ./init.d/Makefile ./man/Makefile ./messages/Makefile ./src/iosched/Makefile ./src/kmi/Makefile ./src/libltfs/Makefile ./src/tape_drivers/freebsd/cam/Makefile ./src/tape_drivers/generic/file/Makefile ./src/tape_drivers/generic/itdtimg/Makefile ./src/tape_drivers/linux/lin_tape/Makefile ./src/tape_drivers/linux/sg/Makefile ./src/tape_drivers/netbsd/scsipi-ibmtape/Makefile ./src/tape_drivers/osx/iokit/Makefile ./src/utils/Makefile ./src/Makefile ./Makefile

Tested with Fedora 39 and Fedora 40, and works a treat. As stated before, there's something odd happening with configure when running on latest Fedora versions. Maybe something worth looking in a near future. Cheers.