Bug 928096 – app-text/texlive-core-2023-r5 fails to compile: pdftexini.c:4015:25: error: assignment to boolean {aka int } from incompatible pointer type internalfontnumber {aka long int } [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2024-03-29 07:53:42 UTC]

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

Issue: app-text/texlive-core-2023-r5 fails to compile.
Discovered on: x86 (internal ref: tinderbox_x86)
System: GCC-14-SYSTEM (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Tinderbox/Common_Issues_Helper#GCC-14)

Info about the issue:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Tinderbox/Common_Issues_Helper#CF0003

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2024-03-29 07:53:43 UTC]

Created attachment 888969 [details]
build.log.xz

build log and emerge --info (compressed because it exceeds attachment limit, use 'xzless' to read it)

[Comment 2 Florian Schmaus 2024-04-04 07:22:44 UTC]

pdftexini.c: In function 'loadfmtfile':
pdftexini.c:4015:25: error: assignment to 'boolean *' {aka 'int *'} from incompatible pointer type 'internalfontnumber *' {aka 'long int *'} [-Wincompatible-pointer-types[https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html#index-Wincompatible-pointer-types]]
 4015 |     pdffonthasspacechar = xmallocarray ( internalfontnumber , fontmax ) ;
      |                         ^
pdftexini.c: In function 'mainbody':
pdftexini.c:5568:27: error: assignment to 'boolean *' {aka 'int *'} from incompatible pointer type 'internalfontnumber *' {aka 'long int *'} [-Wincompatible-pointer-types[https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html#index-Wincompatible-pointer-types]]
 5568 |       pdffonthasspacechar = xmallocarray ( internalfontnumber , fontmax ) ;
      |                           ^
make[5]: *** [Makefile:17857: pdftex-pdftexini.o] Error 1

[Comment 3 Florian Schmaus 2024-04-04 12:41:10 UTC]

It seems that pdftexini.c is not part of the source code of texlive, but rather somehow generated? Then again, I am not yet able to locate the part where it is generated.