[18.7.4] Code does not compile using make. about toolbox HOT 2 CLOSED

For the record, the following patch fixes the swift-log build on Arch Linux (tested on Arch Linux 20231112.0.191179 (Docker tag archlinux:latest) using the swift-bin AUR package version 5.9.1-2):

diff --git a/Sources/Logging/Logging.swift b/Sources/Logging/Logging.swift
index 5910e73..23ef1ab 100644
--- a/Sources/Logging/Logging.swift
+++ b/Sources/Logging/Logging.swift
@@ -1388,7 +1388,9 @@ public struct StreamLogHandler: LogHandler {
         _ = strftime(&buffer, buffer.count, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z", &localTime)
         #else
         var timestamp = time(nil)
-        let localTime = localtime(&timestamp)
+        guard let localTime = localtime(&timestamp) else {
+            return "<unknown>"
+        }
         strftime(&buffer, buffer.count, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z", localTime)
         #endif
         return buffer.withUnsafeBufferPointer {

I have opened a PR against the upstream swift-log repository with this fix, since it also fixes a potential NULL pointer dereference.

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At this time, the recommended way to build the toolbox is the same way the CI does, by just executing swift build -c release.

That being said, the problem is that Arch Linux is not currently supported as a host platform by Swift itself. This is not an issue with Vapor. As far as Linux goes, Swift currently officially supports Ubuntu (18.04 Bionic, 20.04 Focal, and 22.04 Jammy), CentOS 7, Amazon Linux 2, and RedHat UBI 9 (see https://www.swift.org/platform-support/ and https://www.swift.org/download/ for more details). Arch Linux, being a BSD-based distribution, is nominally supported by the compiler itself, but there are clearly issues in various packages, in this case swift-log. (This being said, I'll see if I can't get that particular failure fixed upstream, since there's no reason not to.)

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