tecla @1.6.3: error: incompatible function pointer types passing 'TputsRetType (TputsArgType)' (aka 'void (int)') to parameter of type 'int (*)(int)' [-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types]

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Hello.

Tried to install GQRX using Mac Ports on Sonoma but the installation fails due to the inability to download and install the Tecla sources. Even the -b switch didn't solve the problem.

Thanks in advance,

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[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Please attach the main.log file.

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Done.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Ok, so the failure to fetch precompiled archives is not the bug; see #60756. The real problem is that the port doesn't build:

./getline.c:3931:34: error: incompatible function pointer types passing 'TputsRetType (TputsArgType)' (aka 'void (int)') to parameter of type 'int (*)(int)' [-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types]
 3931 |     tputs((char *)string, nline, gl_tputs_putchar);
      |                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/opt/local/include/term.h:848:60: note: passing argument to parameter here
  848 | extern NCURSES_EXPORT(int) tputs (const char *, int, int (*)(int));
      |                                                            ^
1 error generated.

Just to get the correct info into the bug: You said you're using macOS Sonoma but the log shows macOS 15 which is Sequoia.

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Thanks for filing the ticket under the right hashtags. You are right, its Sequoia, not Sonoma. Any idea how to fix this compilation Error?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The project's code evidently contains a mistake where one type of information is being passed to a function that expects a different type of information. Compilers have issued warnings about incompatible function pointer types for years. Now, the latest compilers no longer tolerate such mistakes and consider them to be errors. Ideally, someone would fix the problem so that the correct type of information is being passed. Less ideally, the error could be downgraded back to a warning.

Usually mistakes in a project's code should be reported to its developers so they can fix it. I'm not sure if this project is still being developed though, since the last version was released ten years ago.