[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#918781: src:gnustep-base: odd FTBFS on powerpc, powerpcspe and ppc64

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 12:15 PM Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > Based on the error on powerpc (2):
> >
> > description.m:26:3: warning: passing argument 3 of
> > 'initWithXMLString:options:error:' from incompatible pointer type
> > [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
> >    xmlDoc = [[NSXMLDocument alloc] initWithXMLString:xmlDocStr
> > options:0 error:error];
> >    ^~~~~~
> > description.m:26:3: note: expected 'struct NSError **' but argument is
> > of type 'struct NSError *'
>
> OK, there's a typo here (should be &error).  But that's certainly not
> the reason for the failure; all NXSMLNode tests pass.
>
> > I would say something is bogus in the deps (update version number in
> > d/control to prevent possible incompatible deps).
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand.  What's wrong with the deps?

Reading from the error log, it felt like an API was changed (hence the
compilation error). So I suggested updating X.Y in something like
Depends: libfoo-dev (>= X.Y) in your d/control.

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