Re: Bug#868609: le FTBFS with latest ncurses

[Alexander V. Lukyanov]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 02:48:27AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Source: le
> Version: 1.16.3-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: buster sid
>
> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/le.html
>
> ...
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib  -I../lib -I../lib -I/usr/include/ncursesw 
> -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat 
> -Werror=format-security -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Woverloaded-virtual 
> -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -fno-implement-inlines -c -o color.o color.cc
> color.cc: In function 'int find_pair(int, int)':
> color.cc:36:12: error: 'int find_pair(int, int)' was declared 'extern' and 
> later 'static' [-fpermissive]
>  static int find_pair(int fg,int bg)
>             ^~~~~~~~~
> In file included from edit.h:36:0,
>                  from color.cc:27:
> /usr/include/ncursesw/curses.h:924:28: note: previous declaration of 'int 
> find_pair(int, int)'
>  extern NCURSES_EXPORT(int) find_pair (int, int);
>                             ^~~~~~~~~
> Makefile:1299: recipe for target 'color.o' failed
> make[3]: *** [color.o] Error 1

ncurses was extended with new symbols, some of which conflict with "le"
internal names. So either ncurses should be fixed not to export these
symbols by default or le should be fixed to rename its identifiers.

--
   Alexander.