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

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 06:33:20AM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Paul Goyette wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Adam wrote:
> > 
> > > > One final note:  the rebuild of webkit-gtk also fails, with
> > > > pretty much the same errors.  At least it fails much sooner than
> > > > webkit24-gtk!  :)
> > > > (Different build order?)
> > > 
> > > Please, update your textproc/icu/buildlink3.mk (should include
> > > c++11) and try again.
> > 
> > Yeah, just saw that commit.  I'll be restarting my package rebuild job soon.
> 
> Even with wiz's commit to textproc/icu/buildlink3.mk (rev 1.31) I am still
> seeing the breakage.  The errors are all of the form
> 
> .. error: invalid conversion from 'const UChar* {aka const char16_t*}' to
> 'const JSChar* {aka const short unsigned int*}'
> 
> and occur at lines 40, 65, and 86 of source file
> Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp
> 
> (There are also numerous warnings related to U_PLATFORM_HAS_WINUWP_API not
> being defined, and each of the above-mentioned invalid conversion errors is
> accompanied by a "note:" related to initializing argument 1 of
> the_called_create*()_function.)

Adam found a qt webkit bug report that sounds similar:

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-35971

It includes a patch, if you want to try...
 Thomas