nbsmtp @1.00: error: incompatible integer to pointer conversion assigning to 'char *' from 'char' [-Wint-conversion]

[Buadhai]

No idea what goes here.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thanks for the report. The log tell us the problem is:

original.c:464:29: warning: cast to smaller integer type 'char' from 'void *' [-Wvoid-pointer-to-int-cast]
  464 |                                 serverinfo->auth_user = (char)NULL;
      |                                                         ^~~~~~~~~~
original.c:464:27: error: incompatible integer to pointer conversion assigning to 'char *' from 'char' [-Wint-conversion]
  464 |                                 serverinfo->auth_user = (char)NULL;
      |                                                       ^ ~~~~~~~~~~
original.c:465:29: warning: cast to smaller integer type 'char' from 'void *' [-Wvoid-pointer-to-int-cast]
  465 |                                 serverinfo->auth_pass = (char)NULL;
      |                                                         ^~~~~~~~~~
original.c:465:27: error: incompatible integer to pointer conversion assigning to 'char *' from 'char' [-Wint-conversion]
  465 |                                 serverinfo->auth_pass = (char)NULL;
      |                                                       ^ ~~~~~~~~~~
2 warnings and 2 errors generated.
make: *** [original.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

So we either need to update the port to a fixed version from its developers or, if none exists, we'll have to develop a fix for this ourselves.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The project's web server no longer exists. Here is the last archived copy of the project's homepage from 2007:

​https://web.archive.org/web/20071013050201/http://nbsmtp.ferdyx.org/

so unless the project has moved somewhere else that we don't know about, I don't expect any help from its developers.

Repology doesn't know of a new home for the project either:

​https://repology.org/project/nbsmtp/information

We could look at what other distributions are doing. Maybe they already have a patch for this. And in fact it looks like this might be it:

​https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=584050b16c033f5e0ffa14a03103f6fde716827f

Let me test it…

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

According to ​https://ports.macports.org/port/nbsmtp/builds/ we have not built this port successfully on any OS version in the five years that we've been keeping track of build status, so there will be more to fix than just this.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In 3b4ac7973d649278d50bb394d618e910d1535bce/macports-ports (master):

nbsmtp: Fix void pointer to int cast warnings

Closes: #71012