libiconv @1.17: install errors on lib/encodings.def with an "incompatible function pointer types initializing" error.

[rbeyer (Ross Beyer)]

I have a brand-new M3 Max MBP, with Sonoma (14.3.1). I installed MacPorts into /opt/macports/ and the very first thing I did with this shiny new MacPorts install was to port install git, which resulted in this error installing libiconv. I port cleaned everything and still get this error when I try to install libiconv:

In file included from lib/genflags.c:109:
lib/encodings.def:75:45: error: incompatible function pointer types initializing 'int (*)(conv_t, unsigned char *, ucs4_t, size_t)' (aka 'int (*)(struct conv_struct *, unsigned char *, unsigned int, unsigned long)') with an expression of type 'int (conv_t, unsigned char *, ucs4_t, int)' (aka 'int (struct conv_struct *, unsigned char *, unsigned int, int)') [-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types]
            { utf8mac_mbtowc, NULL },     { utf8mac_wctomb, NULL })
                                            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
lib/genflags.c:104:34: note: expanded from macro 'DEFENCODING'
    struct wctomb_funcs ofuncs = xxx_ofuncs1,xxx_ofuncs2; \
                                 ^~~~~~~~~~~

Lots of ports depend on libiconv, and I was surprised that this brought me up short. There were also some warnings about "extraneous parentheses" in the libiconv install, but they were just warnings.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Could you attach the main.log file?

[rbeyer (Ross Beyer)]

main.log file from run of port install libiconv immediately after a port clean --all libiconv

[nanigashi-uji (Nanigashi Uji)]

I met the same error.

Type of of last argument of functions, 'utf8mac_mbtowc' and 'utf8mac_wctomb', in 'lib/utf8mac.h' (added by patch-utf8mac.diff) should be 'size_t', but 'int' in patch-utf8mac.diff.

This issue can be solved by correcting them as follows.

static int utf8mac_mbtowc (conv_t conv, ucs4_t *pwc, const unsigned char *s, size_t n)

static int utf8mac_wctomb (conv_t conv, unsigned char *r, ucs4_t wc, size_t n) /* n == 0 is acceptable */

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thank you for pointing that out. I'll take a look.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I agree with the fix. ​The parameter changed from int to size_t in GNU libiconv 1.15 and we didn't notice and update our patch. We've been coasting along with a warning all this time.

Apple made this change and a few others in ​version 41 of their libiconv so I'll adopt their changes into the port.

After version 64, Apple switched from GNU libiconv to Citrus libiconv.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In 9103af9f7d7950b347687f4dcf510b15983850c1/macports-ports (master):

libiconv: Update utf8mac patch from Apple libiconv 41

Fixes build with newer versions of clang.

Closes: #69462