[Evolution] Bug#713549: evolution-ews: FTBFS: e-ews-connection.c:1607:27: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

[David Suárez]

Source: evolution-ews
Version: 3.4.4-1
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20130620 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

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

Relevant part:
> /bin/bash ../../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../..   -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"libeews\" -I../.. -I../.. -I../../src/server -pthread -I/usr/include/libsoup-2.4 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include   -pthread -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/libsoup-2.4 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/evolution-data-server-3.4    -pthread -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/libsoup-2.4 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/evolution-data-server-3.4    -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall   -Wall -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security -Winit-self -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wmissing-noreturn -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -c -o libeews_1_2_la-e-ews-connection.lo `test -f 'e-ews-connection.c' || echo './'`e-ews-connection.c
> libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"libeews\" -I../.. -I../.. -I../../src/server -pthread -I/usr/include/libsoup-2.4 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -pthread -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/libsoup-2.4 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/evolution-data-server-3.4 -pthread -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/libsoup-2.4 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/evolution-data-server-3.4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -Wall -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security -Winit-self -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wmissing-noreturn -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -c e-ews-connection.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libeews_1_2_la-e-ews-connection.o
> e-ews-connection.c: In function 'post_restarted':
> e-ews-connection.c:1607:27: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>       (gchar *) buf->buffer->content,
>                            ^
> e-ews-connection.c:1608:17: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>       buf->buffer->use);
>                  ^
> e-ews-connection.c: In function 'e_ews_get_msg_for_url':
> e-ews-connection.c:1623:29: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>         (gchar *) buf->buffer->content,
>                              ^
> e-ews-connection.c:1624:19: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
>         buf->buffer->use);
>                    ^
> make[5]: *** [libeews_1_2_la-e-ews-connection.lo] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/06/20/evolution-ews_3.4.4-1_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.