On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 9:38 PM Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Dec 4, 2020, at 20:27, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 9:26 PM Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> >
> >> On Dec 4, 2020, at 20:24, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 8:53 PM Timothy Allison wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I have been using kmymoney on my Macs for many years now.  I stupidly 
> >>>> upgraded to Big Sur a month ago, and have been paying the price with 
> >>>> kmymoney4 for about a month.
> >>>> Now that qt4 installs, kmymoney4 fails because gwenhywfar4 fails to 
> >>>> build.  The log file contains 3 errors:
> >>>> :info:build libtest.m:57:2: error: implicit declaration of function 
> >>>> 'test1' is invalid in C99 
> >>>> [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]:info:build         
> >>>> test1();:info:build         ^:info:build libtest.m:88:6: error: implicit 
> >>>> declaration of function 'Cocoa_Gui_new' is invalid in C99 
> >>>> [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]:info:build         
> >>>> gui=Cocoa_Gui_new();:info:build             ^:info:build libtest.m:88:5: 
> >>>> warning: incompatible integer to pointer conversion assigning to 
> >>>> 'GWEN_GUI *' (aka 'struct GWEN_GUI *') from 'int' 
> >>>> [-Wint-conversion]:info:build         gui=Cocoa_Gui_new();:info:build    
> >>>>         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:info:build libtest.m:93:6: error: implicit 
> >>>> declaration of function 'Dlg_Test1_new' is invalid in C99 
> >>>> [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]:info:build         
> >>>> dlg=Dlg_Test1_new();:info:build             ^
> >>>>
> >>>> Unlike qt4-mac, I haven’t found any MacPorts tickets on this issue.  Is 
> >>>> there a workaround?  I’d really like to go back to kmymoney, and a month 
> >>>> is a long time to wait.
> >>>
> >>> After you configure, run the following script before running make.
> >>>
> >>> IFS="" find "./" -iname 'Makefile' -print | while read -r file
> >>> do
> >>>
> >>>   touch -a -m -r "$file" "$file.timestamp"
> >>>   chmod a+w "$file"
> >>>   sed -e "s/-Werror//g" "$file" > "$file.fixed" && \
> >>>   mv "$file.fixed" "$file"
> >>>
> >>>   chmod a-w "$file"
> >>>   touch -a -m -r "$file.timestamp" "$file"
> >>>   rm "$file.timestamp"
> >>> done
> >>
> >> Dunno what you're suggesting here, but it's not the correct fix.
> >
> > The script above removes the DoS the user is currently suffering.
>
> It looks like the script removes "-Werror" from any Makefile. The problem the 
> user is experiencing is not the result of any "-Werror" in any Makefile; 
> rather, it is the result of the fact that Apple changed implicit declaration 
> of functions from a warning to an error in Xcode 12. The fix is not to 
> attempt to turn the error back into a warning again. The fix is to define 
> functions before you use them.

The user does not care what the developer's fix is. He just wants the
DoS gone so he can use his software.

Jeff

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