CCing the maintainers of pyCXX.

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 4:10 PM Jerry James <loganje...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 1:25 PM Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > I've been keeping the lights on in this package for years since the
> maintainer (ravenoak) vanished from Fedora. However, it doesn't build
> against Python 3.7 (works fine with 3.6) and I don't have the cycles to dig
> into it.
> >
> > If someone steps up to fix the FTBFS, I'm willing to hang on as a
> comaintainer, but if no one does, I'm going to orphan it completely in
> about a week.
>
> The bug is not in pysvn.  It is in python-pycxx.  From the build log:
>
> /usr/src/CXX/IndirectPythonInterface.cxx: In function 'char*
> Py::__Py_PackageContext()':
> /usr/src/CXX/IndirectPythonInterface.cxx:471:50: error: invalid
> conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*' [-fpermissive]
>  char *__Py_PackageContext()             { return _Py_PackageContext; }
>                                                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> make: *** [Makefile:170: IndirectPythonInterface.o] Error 1
>
>
> That declaration should be:
>
> const char *__Py_PackageContext()             { return _Py_PackageContext;
> }
>
> Either patch python-pycxx to add the missing "const" or build pysvn
> with -fpermissive.
>
> Incidentally, the two sed expressions in %build are wrong.  They don't
> match anything, and therefore don't change anything.  Change them both
> to this:
>
> %{__sed} -i -e 's@-fexceptions -frtti@%{optflags} -frtti@' Makefile
>
> or, if you want to go the -fpermissive route, to this:
>
> %{__sed} -i -e 's@-fexceptions -frtti@%{optflags} -frtti -fpermissive@'
> Makefile
>
> Regards,
> --
> Jerry James
> http://www.jamezone.org/
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