Bug 280859 – sci-geosciences/viking-0.9.8: merge error: field 'realtime_gpsd_unit' has incomplete type

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Emile de Weerd 2009-08-09 08:44:57 UTC]

When merging viking-0.9.8 with USE flag "gps", an error occur:


vikgpslayer.c:237: error: field 'realtime_gpsd_unit' has incomplete type
vikgpslayer.c: In function 'vik_gps_layer_new':
vikgpslayer.c:473: warning: implicit declaration of function 'gpsd_units'
vikgpslayer.c: In function 'rt_gpsd_try_connect':
vikgpslayer.c:1321: warning: passing argument 2 of 'gps_set_raw_hook' from incompatible pointer type
make[4]: *** [vikgpslayer.o] Error 1


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE flag "gps" activated
2. emerge =sci-geosciences/viking-0.9.8

Actual Results:  
Merge error

Expected Results:  
Merge successful

[Comment 1 Emile de Weerd 2009-08-09 08:46:22 UTC]

Created attachment 200664 [details]
emerge --info output

[Comment 2 Emile de Weerd 2009-08-09 08:48:45 UTC]

Created attachment 200665 [details]
Build.log of the failed merge

[Comment 3 Emile de Weerd 2009-08-09 08:53:37 UTC]

Created attachment 200666 [details, diff]
ebuild correction

epatch command correcting the bug

[Comment 4 Emile de Weerd 2009-08-09 08:54:34 UTC]

Created attachment 200668 [details, diff]
Source patch - correcting the bug

[Comment 5 vyp08 2009-08-10 05:06:16 UTC]

Thanks.

[Comment 6 Hanno Böck 2009-08-10 22:01:31 UTC]

I've commited a fix from upstream trunk, they've a much nicer patch.