Re: Trouble to compile gnustep-base-1.24 on Fedora rawhide

[Fred Kiefer]

The answer here should rather be to update to GNUstep base from SVN. 
There the issue with newer releases of libxml has been fixed on 
2012-10-22 by Rene Hexel.
But we seem to have similar problems in the NSXMLNode code that needs to 
be addressed.

Fred

On 30.11.2012 15:35, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On 29 Nov 2012, at 09:46, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
>
> > Halli,
> >
> > I have try to compile gnustep-base-1.24.0 on Fedora rawhide and have got
> > the following error messages:
> >
> > Compiling file GCDictionary.m ...
> > Compiling file GSLock.m ...
> > Compiling file GSMime.m ...
> > Compiling file GSXML.m ...
> > Compiling file GSFunctions.m ...
> > GSXML.m: In function '-[GSXMLNode description]':
> > GSXML.m:987:38: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> > GSXML.m:987:60: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> > Compiling file GSInsensitiveDictionary.m ...
> > make[4]: *** [obj/Additions.obj/GSXML.m.o] Error 1
> > make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > make[3]: *** [internal-subproject-all_] Error 2
> >
> > the build was running agains gcc-4.7.2-8.
> >
> > It may be nice, if anyoune have a hint to solve this issue.
>
>
> Presumably there is some problem with the version of libxml2 being used on your 
> system (line 987 appears to be about where there is a version check to chose 
> different behaviors depending on the version of libxml2 being used).
> You could try investigating that ... perhaps the check is for the wrong 
> version.  Perhaps for some reason the version number the code is finding is 
> wrong.