Re: hatman won't compile [was james@pharaoh0.demon.co.uk: Re: [jgoerzen@complete.org: Bug#39294: hatman: Error in error]]

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> Here are upstream comments on a bug against a package, hatman,
> that wouldn't compile on Debian Alpha. Please, somebody from
> the mailing list, help me fix this, preferably in form of patches,
> since I don't know C++... :(

Whats hatman? Is it a debian package? If not, wheres the source?

> > error.cc: In function `void initError()':
> > error.cc:86: passing `int (*)(FILE *, const printf_info *, va_list *)' as argument 2 of `register_printf_function(int, int (*)(FILE *, const printf_info *, const void *const *), int (*)(const printf_info *, size_t, int *))'
> > error.cc:87: passing `int (*)(FILE *, const printf_info *, va_list *)' as argument 2 of `register_printf_function(int, int (*)(FILE *, const printf_info *, const void *const *), int (*)(const printf_info *, size_t, int *))'
> 
> Eek, I'm not sure what to do. This caused me problems at one point so I took
> it out of the new version but that isn't into alpha yet ;(, erm, the library
> seems to have a different printf function, but I couldn't tell you why,
> although...

"va_list *" doesn't seem to be a "const void *const *". Why and what I 
can't say without source.

MfG,
	Goswin