Re: Build errors while attempting to build Mozilla Sunbird

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 15:12 -0500, John Mahowald wrote:
> I'm attempting to build Sunbird, Mozilla's standalone calendar.
> 
> With the Firefox package's mozconfig and patches, I got the build to
> start (FC4, i386), but it failed with this error:
> 
> nsFontMetricsPS.h:344: error: 'FTC_Image_Desc' does not name a type
> nsFontMetricsPS.h:347: error: 'FTC_Image_Cache' does not name a type
> nsFontMetricsPS.h:481: error: 'FTC_Image_Desc' does not name a type
> gmake[5]: *** [nsDeviceContextPS.o] Error 1
> 
> Full rpmbuild log is here:
> http://personal.stthomas.edu/jpmahowald1/fedora/sunbird.txt
> 
> Any hints as to what component or patches I could start with would be
> appreciated.

Can you paste in those lines, say from line 340 of nsFontMetricsPS.h to
about line 355?  It looks like a tightening of the C/C++ standard
compliance in recent gcc versions to me.  There may be a quick fix for
it.

Dan