Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/cairo: Fix build with newer gcc

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello Bernd,

On Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:07:59 +0100
Bernd Kuhls <bernd@kuhls.net> wrote:

> Fixes:
> https://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/0e9/0e962c66e1e96b5899e87c13ace824379adc09f9/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd@kuhls.net>

In the spirit of recent discussions, could you respin this patch with a
more specific description, by doing some actual testing: what was the
last GCC version that built cairo successfully, and with which GCC
version did it start failing.

> ---
>  .../0001-Wincompatible-pointer-types.patch    | 38 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 package/cairo/0001-Wincompatible-pointer-types.patch
> 
> diff --git a/package/cairo/0001-Wincompatible-pointer-types.patch b/package/cairo/0001-Wincompatible-pointer-types.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..79f0347538
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/cairo/0001-Wincompatible-pointer-types.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
> +Fix build with newer gcc
> +
> +Downloaded from
> +https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/blob/master/external/cairo/cairo/Wincompatible-pointer-types.patch.0

This link doesn't work anymore, because you pointed to the master
branch, from which this patch has probably been removed.

> +
> +Upstream: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/issues/921
> +
> +Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd@kuhls.net>

Cairo is using Git as its version control-system, so this patch should
be Git-formatted.

I see this hasn't been fixed upstream, while Cairo is widely used and
well-maintained. Why only us are hitting the issue? Not Fedora, Arch,
etc. who use bleeding-edge GCC compilers? Presumably the upstream Cairo
developers are also using an up-to-date distro, so why didn't they fix
the issue?

Is the issue perhaps happening only with a certain C library? Or maybe
it isn't gcc version related after all, or?

Thomas
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