Re: pkgsrc math/octave fails to build with recent NetBSD-current

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

Sverre Froyen <sverre%viewmark.com@localhost> writes:

> I wonder if this error may be related to recent library changes. Thus, the 
> current-users' copy.
>
> With NetBSD 6.99.4 I get the following error when building math/octave:
>
> fflush.c: In function 'update_fpos_cache':
> fflush.c:110:16: error: incompatible types when assigning to type '__off_t' 
> from type 'fpos_t'
>
> The code in question is:
>
> static inline void
> update_fpos_cache (FILE *fp, off_t pos)
> { 
> #if defined __sferror || defined __DragonFly__ /* FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, 
> Drag
> onFly, MacOS X, Cygwin */
> # if defined __CYGWIN__
>   /* fp_->_offset is typed as an integer.  */
>   fp_->_offset = pos;
> # else
>   /* fp_->_offset is an fpos_t.  */ 
>   /* Use a union, since on NetBSD, the compilation flags determine
>      whether fpos_t is typedef'd to off_t or a struct containing a
>      single off_t member.  */
>   union
>     {
>       fpos_t f;
>       off_t o;
>     } u;
>   u.o = pos;
>   fp_->_offset = u.f; 
> # endif
>   fp_->_flags |= __SOFF;
> #endif
> }
>
> and line 110 is the "fp_->_offset = u.f;" assignment.
>
> Anyone knows how best to fix this?

Implement it as autoconf feature test.


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