[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#713666: gnustep-base: FTBFS: GSXML.m:983:38: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

[David Suárez]

Source: gnustep-base
Version: 1.22.1-4.1
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20130620 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part:
> gcc GSXML.m -c \
> 	      -MMD -MP -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -DNO_GNUSTEP=1 -DGNUSTEP -DGNUSTEP_BASE_LIBRARY=1 -DGNU_RUNTIME=1 -DGNUSTEP_BASE_LIBRARY=1 -fno-strict-aliasing -fexceptions -fobjc-exceptions -D_NATIVE_OBJC_EXCEPTIONS -pthread -fPIC -Wall -DGSWARN -DGSDIAGNOSE -Wno-import -g -O2 -fgnu-runtime -fgnu-runtime -fconstant-string-class=NSConstantString -I../. -I../ -I../../Headers -I. -I/usr/include/GNUstep -I/usr/local/include/GNUstep -I/usr/local/include/GNUstep -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include/GNUstep -I/usr/include/GNUstep \
> 	       -o obj/Additions.obj/GSXML.m.o
> GSXML.m: In function '-[GSXMLNode description]':
> GSXML.m:983:38: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>        string = UTF8StrLen(buf->buffer->content, buf->buffer->use);
>                                       ^
> GSXML.m:983:60: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>        string = UTF8StrLen(buf->buffer->content, buf->buffer->use);
>                                                             ^
> make[5]: *** [obj/Additions.obj/GSXML.m.o] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/06/20/gnustep-base_1.22.1-4.1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at 
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.