0011609: libextractor 1.17 uses secure_getenv, which is not a POSIX standard function

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0011609	libextractor	build system	public	2026-07-06 11:31	2026-07-06 11:31

Reporter	SMillerDev	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform	any	OS	macOS	OS Version	any

Summary	0011609: libextractor 1.17 uses secure_getenv, which is not a POSIX standard function
Description	When trying to build libextractor 1.17 in Homebrew we found it failing on macOS: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/291509 It seems to be using https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/secure_005fgetenv.html which is not usable on systems without glibc.
Additional Information	``` extractor_plugpath.c:482:22: error: call to undeclared function 'secure_getenv'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] 482 \| (NULL != (p = GETENV ("LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX"))) ) \| ^ extractor_plugpath.c:474:18: note: expanded from macro 'GETENV' 474 \| #define GETENV secure_getenv \| ^ extractor_plugpath.c:482:20: error: incompatible integer to pointer conversion assigning to 'const char ' from 'int' [-Wint-conversion] 482 \| (NULL != (p = GETENV ("LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX"))) ) \| ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2 errors generated. make[3]: ** [libextractor_la-extractor_plugpath.lo] Error 1 ```
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2026-07-06 11:31	SMillerDev	New Issue