[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#738347: gnustep-base: FTBFS: GSXML.m:987:38: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

[Andreas Beckmann]

Source: gnustep-base
Version: 1.24.0-1
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

gnustep-base/experimental fails to build in a current sid/experimental
environment:

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 -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fgnu-runtime -fgnu-runtime -fconstant-string-class=NSConstantString -fexec-charset=UTF-8 -finput-charset=UTF-8 -I../. -I../ -I../../Headers -I. -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/include/GNUstep -I/usr/local/include/GNUstep -I/usr/local/include/GNUstep -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/p11-kit-1 -I/usr/local/include/GNUstep -I/usr/include/GNUstep \
               -o obj/Additions.obj/GSXML.m.o
GSXML.m: In function '-[GSXMLNode description]':
GSXML.m:987:38: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
       string = UTF8StrLen(buf->buffer->content, buf->buffer->use);
                                      ^
GSXML.m:987:60: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
       string = UTF8StrLen(buf->buffer->content, buf->buffer->use);
                                                            ^
make[5]: *** [obj/Additions.obj/GSXML.m.o] Error 1


Andreas