cannot convert ‘gzFile’ {aka ‘gzFile_s*’} to ‘FILE*’

[tillea]

Hi,
there is a Debian bug report that describes issues with gzFile usage:

x86_64-linux-gnu-g++ -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=. -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -pedantic -O3 -Wall -DM_THREAD=1 -DUSE_ZLIB=1 -c gsinfo.cc 
dbs.cc: In constructor ‘DbsDt::DbsDt(const char*)’:
dbs.cc:568:54: error: cannot convert ‘gzFile’ {aka ‘gzFile_s*’} to ‘FILE*’
  568 |                 if (fread(dbsseq, sizeof(CHAR), rss, gzfd) <= 0)
      |                                                      ^~~~
      |                                                      |
      |                                                      gzFile {aka gzFile_s*}
In file included from stdtype.h:25,
                 from cmn.h:25,
                 from seq.h:25,
                 from dbs.cc:22:
/usr/include/stdio.h:676:51: note:   initializing argument 4 of ‘size_t fread(void*, size_t, size_t, FILE*)’
  676 |                      size_t __n, FILE *__restrict __stream) __wur;
      |                                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~
dbs.cc:570:24: error: cannot convert ‘gzFile’ {aka ‘gzFile_s*’} to ‘FILE*’
  570 |                 fclose(gzfd);
      |                        ^~~~
      |                        |
      |                        gzFile {aka gzFile_s*}
/usr/include/stdio.h:178:26: note:   initializing argument 1 of ‘int fclose(FILE*)’
  178 | extern int fclose (FILE *__stream);
      |                    ~~~~~~^~~~~~~~
...

There are way more such issues so please inspect the full bug report. Alternatively you can see a full build log in our CI.

Kind regards, Andreas.

[ogotoh]

I think this bug has been fixed in ver.2.4.13d. If you still see the compilation error, please let me know.

Osamu,

[tillea]

Ahhh, sorry, the watch file we use in Debian was not working thus I missed the new versions.