Bug#560462: xulrunner: FTBFS: nsGlueLinkingDlopen.cpp:90: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: xulrunner
Version: 1.9.1.5-2
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20091210 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

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

Relevant part:
> c++ -o nsGlueLinkingDlopen.o -c -I../../../dist/include/system_wrappers -include ../../../config/gcc_hidden.h -DOSTYPE=\"Linux2.6\" -DOSARCH=Linux -DXPCOM_GLUE -DTARGET_XPCOM_ABI=\"x86_64-gcc3\" -I./../../build  -I. -I. -I../../../dist/include/string -I../../../dist/include   -I../../../dist/include/xpcom -I/usr/include/nspr    -I/build/user-xulrunner_1.9.1.5-2-amd64-upUK4h/xulrunner-1.9.1.5/dist/sdk/include    -fPIC   -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wcast-align -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wno-long-long -g -fno-strict-aliasing -pthread -pipe  -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -Os -freorder-blocks -fno-reorder-functions    -DMOZILLA_CLIENT -include ../../../mozilla-config.h -Wp,-MD,.deps/nsGlueLinkingDlopen.pp nsGlueLinkingDlopen.cpp
> nsGlueLinkingDlopen.cpp: In function 'nsresult (* XPCOMGlueLoad(const char*))(XPCOMFunctions*, const char*)':
> nsGlueLinkingDlopen.cpp:90: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
> make[6]: *** [nsGlueLinkingDlopen.o] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2009/12/10/xulrunner_1.9.1.5-2_lsid64.buildlog

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 about 50 AMD64 nodes
of the Grid'5000 platform, using a clean chroot.  Internet was not
accessible from the build systems.

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