Re: Failure to build webkit24-gtk with today's sources

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

OK, looks like this is where the problem occurs:

Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp: In function 'OpaqueJSString* JSStringCreateWithCharacters(const JSChar*, size_t)':
Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp:40:50: error: invalid conversion from 'const JSChar* {aka const short unsigned int*}' to 'const UChar* {aka const char16_t*}' [-fpermissive]
     return OpaqueJSString::create(chars, numChars).leakRef();
                                                  ^
In file included from Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp:31:0:
Source/JavaScriptCore/API/OpaqueJSString.h:49:39: note:   initializing argument 1 of 'static WTF::PassRefPtr<OpaqueJSString> OpaqueJSString::create(const UChar*, unsigned int)'
     static PassRefPtr<OpaqueJSString> create(const UChar* characters, unsigned length)
                                       ^
Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp: In function 'OpaqueJSString* JSStringCreateWithCharactersNoCopy(const JSChar*, size_t)':
Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp:65:83: error: invalid conversion from 'const JSChar* {aka const short unsigned int*}' to 'const UChar* {aka const char16_t*}' [-fpermissive]
     return OpaqueJSString::create(StringImpl::createWithoutCopying(chars, numChars)).leakRef();
                                                                                   ^
In file included from ./Source/WTF/wtf/text/WTFString.h:29:0,
                 from Source/JavaScriptCore/API/OpaqueJSString.h:31,
                 from Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp:31:
./Source/WTF/wtf/text/StringImpl.h:393:54: note:   initializing argument 1 of 'static WTF::PassRef<WTF::StringImpl> WTF::StringImpl::createWithoutCopying(const UChar*, unsigned int)'
     WTF_EXPORT_STRING_API static PassRef<StringImpl> createWithoutCopying(const UChar* characters, unsigned length);
                                                      ^
Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp: In function 'const JSChar* JSStringGetCharactersPtr(JSStringRef)':
Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp:86:30: error: invalid conversion from 'const UChar* {aka const char16_t*}' to 'const JSChar* {aka const short unsigned int*}' [-fpermissive]
     return string->characters();
                              ^
GNUmakefile:70161: recipe for target 'Source/JavaScriptCore/API/libjavascriptcoregtk_1_0_la-JSStringRef.lo' failed



A private response from wiz@ indicates that this is fallout from the 
recent update to textproc/icu



On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Paul Goyette wrote:

> My pkgsrc was updated via cvs just a few hours ago, and I proceeded to 
> rebuild all of my out-of-date packages.  I got as far as webkit24-gtk, and 
> after more than two hours of building it failed.  The log file has tons of 
> errors and warnings, and it was building with jobs=8, so I really cannot 
> figure out what the specific error was.  But it is 100% repeatable.  (Note: 
> the two-hour time frame means it was pretty close to finishing - it usually 
> takes about 2:15:00 to complete.)
>
> The entire log file is available at
>
> 	http://www.netbsd.org/~pgoyette/webkit24-gtk.log
>
> Hopefully someone with a clue will be able to fix...
>
>
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