[Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#741824: julia: FTBFS: repl-readline.c:834:24: error: 'Function' undeclared (first use in this function)

[David Suárez]

Source: julia
Version: 0.2.1+dfsg-1
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20140315 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

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

On new readline versions old-style function typedefs have been deprecated.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> gcc -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -std=gnu99 -pipe -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DJL_SYSTEM_IMAGE_PATH="../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/julia/sys.ji" -falign-functions -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -Wall -Wno-strict-aliasing -fno-omit-frame-pointer -I/«BUILDDIR»/julia-0.2.1+dfsg/src -I/«BUILDDIR»/julia-0.2.1+dfsg/src/support -I/«BUILDDIR»/julia-0.2.1+dfsg/usr/include -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -std=gnu99 -pipe -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DJL_SYSTEM_IMAGE_PATH="../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/julia/sys.ji" -c repl-readline.c -o repl-readline.o
> repl-readline.c: In function 'jl_init_repl':
> repl-readline.c:834:24: error: 'Function' undeclared (first use in this function)
>      rl_startup_hook = (Function*)init_rl;
>                         ^
> repl-readline.c:834:24: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> repl-readline.c:834:33: error: expected expression before ')' token
>      rl_startup_hook = (Function*)init_rl;
>                                  ^
> repl-readline.c: At top level:
> repl-readline.c:734:13: warning: 'init_rl' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
>  static void init_rl(void)
>              ^
> make[4]: *** [repl-readline.o] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2014/03/15/julia_0.2.1+dfsg-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.