GnuCash trunk r20559 mingw build failed

[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> On maandag 11 april 2011, Nitish Kumar wrote:
>> I am sorry for posting in non standrard ways, I am learning things about
>> mailing list.
>> 
>> Here are the last few lines:
>> 
>> cc1.exe: warnings being treated as errors
>> ../../../../repos/src/libqof/qof/guid.c: In function 'init_from_file':
>> ../../../../repos/src/libqof/qof/guid.c:243:5: error: unknown conversion
>> type ch
>> aracter 'l' in format
>> ../../../../repos/src/libqof/qof/guid.c:243:5: error: format '%s' expects
>> type '
>> char *', but argument 5 has type 'long long unsigned int'
>> ../../../../repos/src/libqof/qof/guid.c:243:5: error: too many arguments
>> for for
>> mat
>> ../../../../repos/src/libqof/qof/guid.c: In function 'guid_init':
>> ../../../../repos/src/libqof/qof/guid.c:510:5: error: unknown conversion
>> type ch
>> aracter 'l' in format
>> ../../../../repos/src/libqof/qof/guid.c:510:5: error: too many arguments
>> for for
>> mat
>> ../../../../repos/src/libqof/qof/guid.c:513:9: error: unknown conversion
>> type ch
>> aracter 'l' in format
>> ../../../../repos/src/libqof/qof/guid.c:513:9: error: too many arguments
>> for for
>> mat
>
> This is a bit weird: gcc fails because it doesn't seem to know the %llu format 
> specifier. This particular problem was fixed by Phil more than a year ago [1]. 
> You can check in the code that the lines causing an error are inside 
> preprocessor conditionals #ifdef HAVE_SCANF_LLD to explicitly check if this 
> specifier is supported. So it seems this check doesn't work properly in your 
> case.

Is there any reason we're not using G_UINT64_FORMAT here?

> What version of Windows are you using, and is it 32 bit or 64 bit ?
>
> Geert
>
> [1] Fixed in this changeset: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/18858

-derek

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