On Tue 26 Oct 2004 at 19:53:40 -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I am building under NetBSD 1.6.2_STABLE. And now it fails with:
> 
> AbiCommand.cpp: In method `void AbiCommand::doCommands()':
> AbiCommand.cpp:247: static_cast from `void *' to `const UT_String *'
> AbiCommand.cpp: In method `void AbiCommand::clearTokenVector(UT_Vector
> &)':
> AbiCommand.cpp:403: static_cast from `void *' to `const UT_String *'
> ...
> AbiCommand.cpp: In method `bool AbiCommand::replaceNext(UT_Vector *)':
> AbiCommand.cpp:934: static_cast from `void *' to `const UT_String *'
> gmake[3]: *** [AbiCommand.lo] Error 1
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/pkg/tmp/pkgsrc/editors/abiword-plugins/work.rainier/abiword-2.0.11/abiword-plugins/tools/abicommand/xp'
> 
> (This is gcc 2.95.3.)

There are some patches (from me) that change casts in the source of
AbiWord that gcc complains about[1].  Although all of those were about
eliminating reinterpret_casts.  It seems similar patches are needed
here.

[1] I suppose those casts were written as they were to increase
portability but in practice they did the opposite.

>  Jeremy C. Reed
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