appstream-glib @0.6.10: error: ‘for’ loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode

[dliessi (Davide Liessi)]

Build failure on Mac OS X 10.6.8, Xcode 3.2.6.

Relevant parts of main.log (complete file attached):

:info:build as-app.c: In function ‘as_app_get_format_by_filename’:
:info:build as-app.c:929: error: ‘for’ loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode
:info:build as-app.c: In function ‘as_app_get_format_by_kind’:
:info:build as-app.c:952: error: ‘for’ loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode
:info:build as-app.c: In function ‘as_app_get_require_by_value’:
:info:build as-app.c:1315: error: ‘for’ loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode

:info:build as-app.c: In function ‘as_app_recalculate_state’:
:info:build as-app.c:2868: error: ‘for’ loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode
:info:build as-app.c: In function ‘as_app_add_format’:
[...]
:info:build as-app.c:2911: error: ‘for’ loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode

[dliessi (Davide Liessi)]

I filed a bug upstream: ​https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib/issues/165.

[dliessi (Davide Liessi)]

I tried adding configure.cflags-append -std=c99: the original error is gone, but the build stil fails with many lines like

:info:build as-node.c:1800: error: ‘AsNodeData’ has no member named ‘cdata’

Any ideas? Should I try with a later compiler? macports-gcc-4.9/5/6?

[dliessi (Davide Liessi)]

I tried with configure.compiler=macports-gcc-6 and got

:info:build gcc-mp-6: error: unrecognized command line option '-iwithsysroot'; did you mean '-isysroot'?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Looks like 0.6.13 built successfully on Snow Leopard on our buildbot, so I assume this was resolved.