[gentoo-user] Re: Having problems compiling several packages, possible issues with pango?

[walt]

On 09/05/2011 03:29 AM, Datty wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been having a few problems with a week old gentoo desktop install with gnome 3 from the gnome overlay. Both libgnomeprint-2.18.8 and evolution-3.0.3 are failing showing the errors below which I think are related to pango.
>
> In file included from /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-gravity.h:98:0,
>                  from /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-types.h:91,
>                  from /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-font.h:26,
>                  from /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-fontmap.h:25,
>                  from ../../libgnomeprint/gnome-font.h:73,
>                  from ../../libgnomeprint/gnome-print.h:59,
>                  from ../gnome-print-private.h:43,
>                  from sft.h:92,
>                  from crc32.c:47:
> /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-script.h:132:12: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘G_CONST_RETURN’

The guilty syntax (appearing in several pango headers) seems to be this:

 G_CONST_RETURN char **start
                ^^^^
Looking at the vast number of uses of G_CONST_RETURN in other header files,
I'm guessing that the word 'char' should really be 'gchar'.

I would test this idea by editing the headers in /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango
by hand, making the above change to every instance of 'C_CONST_RETURN char'.

If that trick works, then it's definitely a bug in the pango package and
needs to be fixed.  Otherwise, I'm stumped.