On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:32:34AM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Montag 01 Juni 2009 schrieb Martin Vidner:
Hi,
in case you wonder why your C++ package build started to fail with error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
It's because glibc-2.10 has been checked in which contains stricter prototypes for some functions. Instead of the C prototype char *strchr(const char *, int) we have char *strchr(char *, int) const char *strchr(const char *, int)
Details are at http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20948.html
Thanks Martin for the pointer. The fallout of this is pretty large so I'm asking anyone with a failure to fix packages - the change is done easily done and we need to get the current rate of failures down before we can integrate more things.
A lot of fixed packages are already waiting to be accepted, thanks for that. But I'm afraid a lot is left to do ;(
By the way, I just created a sr for another glibc update that might induce some build failures - in glibc-2.8, namespace pollution of many header files was fixed and many definitions are now guarded by USE_GNU etc.; at that time, this introduced too many build failures so we reverted this change for the time being, but by now, I think most applications should have been fixed. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org