[Bug 1167227] New: build error: conflicting types for 'if_nametoindex'

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Bug ID: 1167227
           Summary: build error: conflicting types for 'if_nametoindex'
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
         Component: mingw-glib2
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The if_nametoindex() API, according to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb408408(v=vs.85).as...
(first paragraph under Remarks), has been introduced on Windows Vista. GLib2
still supports Windows XP, so they provided a fallback function with commit
#01156b12.

For some unknown reason, both versions end up to be defined at build time.

As a temporary workaround I appended "ac_cv_func_if_nametoindex=yes" to the
configure call to be able to successfully terminate the build.

[Bug 1167227] build error: conflicting types for 'if_nametoindex'

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167227

--- Comment #1 from Nicola Fontana  ---
I think the above workaround (i.e. using "ac_cv_func_if_nametoindex=yes" in
configure) will make the compiled binaries that depend on if_nametoindex()
unusable on Windows XP. I do not have access to that platform to verify this by
myself though.

[Bug 1167227] build error: conflicting types for 'if_nametoindex'

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167227

--- Comment #2 from Richard W.M. Jones  ---
If this is a bug in glib2 or mingw-w64, then you need to take it
to the upstream community.  We're just packaging mingw-glib2.

[Bug 1167227] build error: conflicting types for 'if_nametoindex'

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--- Comment #3 from Nicola Fontana  ---
Of course the problem is upstream, as almost anything reported here. I just
don't have time to investigate deeper.

I'm maintaining a MingW toolchain that depends on yours
(https://github.com/ntd/aur-fedora-mingw) and the problem came out after trying
to incorporate
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/mingw-glib2.git/commit/?id=f86c153dcdcc4c...

Are you implying that you do not see this failure on Fedora? If there is a way
to see the results of the builds, please point me to the right direction: I
often need them.

[Bug 1167227] build error: conflicting types for 'if_nametoindex'

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167227

--- Comment #4 from Richard W.M. Jones  ---
I'm not "implying" anything.  I'm hopefully clearly stating that
Fedora only packages mingw packages from upstream.  If there's a
problem in the Fedora packaging, then we can fix it here.  Otherwise
we can't fix it - you need to ask upstream.

[Bug 1167227] build error: conflicting types for 'if_nametoindex'

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--- Comment #5 from Thomas Sailer  ---
I don't understand the problem, I'm using mingw glib2 on Windows 2000 and 8.1,
and haven't seen this...

[Bug 1167227] build error: conflicting types for 'if_nametoindex'

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--- Comment #7 from Erik van Pienbroek  ---
The mingw-glib2 package builds fine without issues on Fedora. Closing bug