Bugzilla Bug 179843

DevIL does something like the following:

typedef void ILvoid;
ILvoid some_devil_func(ILvoid);

The last ILvoid is illegal as void is only a special case to describe an
argumentless function in C. C++'s syntax disallows the use of a typedef here to
denote this special case. So every C++ packet that includes any of devil's
headers is affected.
To fix the problem every (ILvoid) must be replaced with (void) before emerging
devil. This could be done with a sed script or a patch which I will add here.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use gcc-4.2
2. emerge devil.
3. try to compile with g++:
#include <IL/il.h>
int main() {}

Created an attachment (id=120348) [edit]
Changes (ILvoid) to (void)

I changed typedef to 
#define ILvoid void

might want to change the homepage to http://openil.sourceforge.net/ too (unless
of course you enjoy hentai links). ;)

this patch appears correct.

In portage.  Thanks for checking it out.

http://www.imagelib.org/ works fine for me so I left that as the homepage.

Why did this not cause a revision bump? I'm running into this issue with
media-libs/devil-1.6.7-r1 installed from 2006-11-20, and it is the latest
version available in Portage. I tried to update cegui, but it failed due to the
ILvoid issues mentioned above - I'm now using gcc-4.2.0. As more people switch
to gcc-4.2.x, there are going to be a lot of compile failures due to this - can
the revision be bumped so that this gets picked up in updates, instead of
having to break a compile and have the user try to hunt down the issue, and be
confused as to why it's not already fixed?

-James

done

*** Bug 208402 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***