[Libreoffice] bison 2.5 breaks build process

[Lubos Lunak]

On Wednesday 18 of May 2011, Andreas Radke wrote:
> Since bison 2.5 update I get this build break with 3.4rc1:
>
> In file included from
> /build/src/build/connectivity/source/parse/wrap_sqlbison.cxx:32:0:
> ../../unxlngx6.pro/misc/sqlbison.cxx: In function 'int SQLyyparse()':
> ../../unxlngx6.pro/misc/sqlbison.cxx:7814:9: error: invalid conversion from
> 'const char*' to 'sal_Char*' [-fpermissive]
> ../../inc/connectivity/sqlparse.hxx:235:14: error:   initializing
> argument 1 of 'void connectivity::OSQLParser::error(sal_Char*)'
> [-fpermissive]
>
> Afaik this can be fixed with adding -fpermissive to the CXXFLAGS.
> But is this the proper fix?

 No. Presumably the new bison version finally realized it's 21st century and 
started using const char* instead of plain char* when referring const 
strings. Try adding const to the relevant places in sqlbison.y .

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 Lubos Lunak
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