Bug 938684 – media-sound/helm-0.9.0-r2 fails to compile: juce_freetype_Fonts.cpp:353:47: error: invalid conversion from short unsigned int to const short int [-fpermissive]

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2024-08-29 14:56:42 UTC]

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: media-sound/helm-0.9.0-r2 fails to compile.
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: gcc15_tinderbox)
System: GCC-15-SYSTEM (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Tinderbox/Common_Issues_Helper#GCC-15)

Info about the issue:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Tinderbox/Common_Issues_Helper#CF0014

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2024-08-29 14:56:43 UTC]

Created attachment 901534 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 schizo80 2025-01-22 10:29:43 UTC]

I have the same issue on my machine. Has a solution to this bug been found?

[Comment 3 Watcom 2025-03-06 17:26:26 UTC]

Created attachment 920314 [details, diff]
fix for "invalid conversion" compilation errors

I tried the obvious trivial fix for this error and it worked (patch).

Users can try by adding the patch file to /etc/portage/patches/media-sound/helm