gnome-online-accounts @3.44.0: error: call to undeclared function 'xmlReadMemory'

[Alex11N]

Hello David,

I am using the latest MacPorts (2.9.3) on macOS Ventura 13.6.4, and keep the ports tree updated on a daily basis.

'port' udpated a number of items the other day, including gcr, which, somewhat to my surprise built and (force-)installed.The updates on the day following the successful build/install of gcr broke at the stage of building gnome-online-accounts. A number of other ports have broken after gcr installed; these are: gnome-online-accounts @3.44.0, libgdata @0.18.1, and gvfs @1.36.2+python36. libgdata and gvfs appear to be dependent on gnome-online-accounts: at any rate, neither will install before gnone-online-accounts.

gnome-online-accounts build exit with an error message, I've attached the /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_gnome-online-accounts/gnome-online-accounts/main.log file.

[Alex11N]

main.log file following failed build

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Log says:

goaewsclient.c:252:9: error: call to undeclared function 'xmlReadMemory'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
  doc = xmlReadMemory (msg->response_body->data, msg->response_body->length, "autodiscover.xml", NULL, 0);
        ^

This is an incompatibility with libxml2 ≥ 2.12. This line needs to be added:

#include <libxml/parser.h>

If gnome-online-accounts developers haven't fixed this problem yet they need to be notified to do so.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Here is their commit that fixed it:

​https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-online-accounts/-/commit/b9638e2418408be4906752297e700506766dcf20

It was fixed in 3.49.0. Our port is at version 3.44.0. Our port needs to be updated to the latest version which is 3.50.2.