Bug 93120 – minicom fails to compile with gcc-4.0.0

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2005-05-18 17:26:29 UTC]

vt100.c: In function 'vt_init':
vt100.c:269: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness
vt100.c:270: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness
vt100.c: In function 'state4':
vt100.c:818: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness
vt100.c:822: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness
vt100.c: In function 'state5':
vt100.c:844: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness
vt100.c:848: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness
window.c:65: error: static declaration of 'BC' follows non-static declaration
/usr/include/termcap.h:59: error: previous declaration of 'BC' was here
make[2]: *** [window.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. use gcc-4.0.0
2. emerge minicom




Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-4.0.0, glibc-
2.3.5.20050421-r0, 2.6.12-rc4-mm1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-rc4-mm1 i686 Celeron (Mendocino)
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.8
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.97
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentiumpro -mmmx -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X
11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo 
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://csociety-
ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ 
rsync://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ 
ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/ 
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo 
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ 
http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ 
rsync://rsync.gentoo.skynet.be/gentoo/ 
http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ 
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ 
rsync://ftp.belnet.be/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2 -s"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gurlinet.dk/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acl acpi alsa bitmap-fonts chroot crypt directfb emboss fam fbcon 
foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 hardened imlib ipv6 java jpeg 
libg++ libwww md5sum mmx motif mp3 ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis pam 
pdflib perl pic pie png pnp python readline samba slang ssl symlink tcpd 
truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts vorbis xml xml2 zlib userland_GNU 
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2005-05-28 17:03:30 UTC]

Created attachment 60043 [details, diff]
GCC4 compile fix

Give this patch a try.	They have the problem fixed in their CVS, which is
where I grabbed this.

[Comment 2 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2005-05-28 17:04:25 UTC]

If no one from dialup minds, I'll add this patch in a day or two.

[Comment 3 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-05-29 04:42:13 UTC]

patch added