Bug 919710 – dev-lang/vala: fails to compile on GCC 14 (incompatible pointer type)

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 892708
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Christopher Fore 2023-12-11 15:23:38 UTC]

Created attachment 878667 [details]
build.log of vala

Reproducible:
Always

Steps to reproduce:
1. Emerge with GCC 14

valacodecontext.c:2669:33: error: assignment to 'gchar **' {aka 'char **'} from incompatible pointer type 'const gchar * const*' {aka 'const char * const*'} [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
 2669 |                 _tmp4_ = _tmp3_ = g_get_system_data_dirs ();
      |                                 ^
valacodecontext.c:2700:33: error: assignment to 'gchar **' {aka 'char **'} from incompatible pointer type 'const gchar * const*' {aka 'const char * const*'} [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
 2700 |                 _tmp9_ = _tmp8_ = g_get_system_data_dirs ();
      |                                 ^

$ gcc-config -l
...
 [3] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-13
 [4] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-14 *

[Comment 1 Christopher Fore 2023-12-11 15:43:31 UTC]

Created attachment 878668 [details, diff]
casts the function to gchar**

I can't seem to find the upstream source for this C file, the archived bootstrap code doesn't have it and there are no C files in Vala's repository.

[Comment 2 Christopher Fore 2023-12-11 15:54:57 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 892708 ***