Cannot install kmymoney4 due to gwenhywfar4 failure on Big Sur

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 4, 2020, at 20:24, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 8:53 PM Timothy Allison wrote:
>> 
>> I have been using kmymoney on my Macs for many years now.  I stupidly upgraded to Big Sur a month ago, and have been paying the price with kmymoney4 for about a month.
>> Now that qt4 installs, kmymoney4 fails because gwenhywfar4 fails to build.  The log file contains 3 errors:
>> :info:build libtest.m:57:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'test1' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]:info:build         test1();:info:build         ^:info:build libtest.m:88:6: error: implicit declaration of function 'Cocoa_Gui_new' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]:info:build         gui=Cocoa_Gui_new();:info:build             ^:info:build libtest.m:88:5: warning: incompatible integer to pointer conversion assigning to 'GWEN_GUI *' (aka 'struct GWEN_GUI *') from 'int' [-Wint-conversion]:info:build         gui=Cocoa_Gui_new();:info:build            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:info:build libtest.m:93:6: error: implicit declaration of function 'Dlg_Test1_new' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]:info:build         dlg=Dlg_Test1_new();:info:build             ^
>> 
>> Unlike qt4-mac, I haven’t found any MacPorts tickets on this issue.  Is there a workaround?  I’d really like to go back to kmymoney, and a month is a long time to wait.
> 
> After you configure, run the following script before running make.
> 
> IFS="" find "./" -iname 'Makefile' -print | while read -r file
> do
> 
>    touch -a -m -r "$file" "$file.timestamp"
>    chmod a+w "$file"
>    sed -e "s/-Werror//g" "$file" > "$file.fixed" && \
>    mv "$file.fixed" "$file"
> 
>    chmod a-w "$file"
>    touch -a -m -r "$file.timestamp" "$file"
>    rm "$file.timestamp"
> done

Dunno what you're suggesting here, but it's not the correct fix. The correct fix is to fix the implicit function declarations, which I've explained at length in an email on macports-dev.