OTS not building in HEAD

From: Frodo Looijaard (frodol_at_dds.nl)
Date: Fri Feb 20 2004 - 10:56:28 EST

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    Hi folks,

    while building CVS HEAD abiword-plugins on Debian unstable, I encounter a
    problem with OTS:

    AbiOts.cpp: In function `bool AbiOts_invoke(AV_View*, EV_EditMethodCallData*)':
    AbiOts.cpp:98: error: invalid conversion from `const char*' to `const unsigned char*'

    Offending line:
      if (!ots_load_xml_dictionary (article, dictionary_file))

    It seems it is declared in /usr/include/libots-1/ots/libots.h as:

      gboolean ots_load_xml_dictionary (OtsArticle * Doc,unsigned const char *name);

    Looking at libots.h, (almost) all char * parameters are changed to
    unsigned char *.

    OTS is 0.4.2+cvs.2004.02.20-1, so it is quite recent. Indeed, on
    Debian testing, we have 0.4.1+cvs.2003.10.26-1, and it has

      gboolean ots_load_xml_dictionary (OtsArticle * Doc, const char *name);

    Plain OTS 0.4.2 also has the const char version. So somewhere between
    0.4.2 and now, this declaration has changed. Not nice :-(

    I'll fudge a quick solution for my setup, but this should somehow be
    solved more thoroughly by the time OTS 0.4.3 is released. You have been
    warned!

    Thanks,
      Frodo 

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