Bug 596886 – kde-frameworks/kservice-5.26.0 fails to build, illegal comment

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description gentoo 2016-10-11 17:21:44 UTC]

Created attachment 449886 [details]
emerge --info output

When I try to emerge this (stable on amd64), I get this error:

/var/tmp/portage/kde-frameworks/kservice-5.26.0/work/kservice-5.26.0_build/src/lex.c: In function ‘kiotraderensure_buffer_stack’:
/var/tmp/portage/kde-frameworks/kservice-5.26.0/work/kservice-5.26.0_build/src/lex.c:1708:21: error: C++ style comments are not allowed in ISO C90
   num_to_alloc = 1; // After all that talk, this was set to 1 anyways...
/var/tmp/portage/kde-frameworks/kservice-5.26.0/work/kservice-5.26.0_build/src/lex.c:1708:21: error: (this will be reported only once per input file)

Attaching output of: emerge --info

[Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner 2016-10-11 17:26:53 UTC]

Please upgrade to sys-devel/flex-2.6.1 and try again. 2.6.0 should probably be removed from tree for that bug.

[Comment 2 gentoo 2016-10-11 17:45:55 UTC]

Thank you, upgrading sys-devel/flex to 2.6.1 fixed this.

[Comment 3 Jefferson Carpenter 2016-12-19 21:11:39 UTC]

I just had this problem too.  flex-2.6.1 should be a dependency of KDE Plasma, right?  How does this dependency get added?

[Comment 4 Jefferson Carpenter 2016-12-19 21:18:14 UTC]

(In reply to Jefferson Carpenter from comment #3)
> I just had this problem too.  flex-2.6.1 should be a dependency of KDE
> Plasma, right?  How does this dependency get added?