Missing libglibmm2.4-devel-2.54.1-2 for x86

[Ken Brown]

On 9/27/2020 8:21 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:40:06 +0200, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps
>> On 27.09.2020 03:33, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I've noticed that libglibmm2.4-devel-2.54.1-2 for x86 is missing, while its x86_64 version is available
>>> (cf. https://www.cygwin.com/packages/summary/libglibmm2.4-devel.html ).
>>>
>>> Please, update it.
>>>
>>>
>>> By the way, I'm trying to package inkscape 1.0.1.
>>> But, missing an updated package is an obstacle against compiling inkscape in an x86 environment.
>>> On the other hand, with libglibmm2.4-devel-2.54.1-2, inkscape 1.0.1 can be compiled and seems to work in an x86_64 environment.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Lem
>>>
>> it is possible that the update was only needed for x86_64.
>> Have you seen any problem in compiling on x86 ?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> About glibmm2.4, changes from 2.54.1-1 to 2.54.1-2 [1] are
> brought by a patch [2], which modifies header files.
> And, the fixes apply to both x86_64 and x86.
> 
> Without the fixes, we'll get an error like this (by gcc (GCC) 10.2.0):
> ====
> ...
> /usr/include/glibmm-2.4/glibmm/threads.h: In member function ‘GPrivate* Glib::Treads::Private<T>::gobj()’:
> /usr/include/glibmm-2.4/glibmm/threads.h:660:29: error: cannot convert ‘GPrivat’ to ‘GPrivate*’ in return
>    660 |   GPrivate* gobj() { return gobject_; }
>        |                             ^~~~~~~~
>        |                             |
>        |                             GPrivate
> ====
> 
> A similar case has been reported on a Fedora system [3] and it has been fixed by the patch [2].
> 
> [1]: https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/glibmm2.4.git;a=commitdiff;h=56ab0085c826aee4cde8d1cfeafd2fb216fd6df9
> 
> [2]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/glibmm24/raw/ecc4276486706c0ebc55aff3ac592499dc9df2a9/f/0001-Glib-Threads-Private-Fix-gobj.patch
> 
> [3]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1540795

I just did a non-maintainer upload of the x86 packages.  It should hit the 
mirrors within an hour or so.

Ken