634224 – app-accessibility/speech-tools-2.1-r2 fails to build with gcc-7.2: error: invalid conversion from 'char' to 'char*' [-fpermissive]

Bug 634224 - app-accessibility/speech-tools-2.1-r2 fails to build with gcc-7.2: error: invalid conversion from 'char' to 'char*' [-fpermissive]

Summary: app-accessibility/speech-tools-2.1-r2 fails to build with gcc-7.2: error: inv...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Accessibility Team

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Blocks:	gcc-7
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Reported:	2017-10-14 09:03 UTC by Christian Strahl
Modified:	2018-04-03 11:47 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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build.log (build.log,50.78 KB, text/plain) 2017-10-14 09:05 UTC, Christian Strahl	Details
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Description Christian Strahl 2017-10-14 09:03:22 UTC

emerging app-accessibility/speech-tools-2.1-r2 fails with gcc-7.2:

siod.cc: In function 'char** siod_variable_generator(char*, int)':
siod.cc:462:18: error: invalid conversion from 'char' to 'char*' [-fpermissive]
     matches[i] = '\0';
                  ^~~~
siod.cc: In function 'char** siod_command_generator(char*, int)':
siod.cc:501:18: error: invalid conversion from 'char' to 'char*' [-fpermissive]
     matches[i] = '\0';
                  ^~~~


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Christian Strahl 2017-10-14 09:05:08 UTC

Created attachment 498650 [details]
build.log

Comment 2 Christian Strahl 2017-10-15 20:09:01 UTC

patch provided in 
    https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/5956

Comment 3 Peter Levine 2018-03-31 03:06:21 UTC

This appears to have been resolved with https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/bde1d2d0a2289811e5b499fc279925cb47480ef9.

Please close.