Bug 944383 – app-misc/gnuit-4.9.5-r2 fails to compile: tilde.c:50:14: error: conflicting types for strcpy; have char (void)

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2024-11-21 20:55:31 UTC]

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

Issue: app-misc/gnuit-4.9.5-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 2024-11-21 20:55:32 UTC]

Created attachment 911375 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 NHO 2025-01-13 15:20:11 UTC]

There's worse: src/tty.c
2021:   fn = read;
2026:   fn = write;

where read and write are default C functions from unistd.h,
ssize_t read(int, void*, size_t);
ssize_t write(int, const void*, size_t);
With void* and const void* being incompatible pointer type.
I hate it, but cast works here.

Can we drop this 15 years old dead package with hard-coded checks for ancient harware, K&R definitions and bad code quality?