Bug 301512 – REGRESSION(300938@main): [GTK] [2.51.1] Fails to build on i386: redefinition of 'a' with a different type: 'const char *' vs 'const Latin1Character *' (aka 'const unsigned char *')

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: WebKitGTK

[Alberto Garcia]

This is with clang 19:

FAILED: Source/WTF/wtf/CMakeFiles/WTF.dir/BloomFilter.cpp.o 
In file included from /build/reproducible-path/webkit2gtk-2.51.1/Source/WTF/wtf/BloomFilter.cpp:27:
In file included from /build/reproducible-path/webkit2gtk-2.51.1/Source/WTF/wtf/BloomFilter.h:30:
In file included from /build/reproducible-path/webkit2gtk-2.51.1/Source/WTF/wtf/text/AtomString.h:24:
In file included from /build/reproducible-path/webkit2gtk-2.51.1/Source/WTF/wtf/text/AtomStringImpl.h:24:
In file included from /build/reproducible-path/webkit2gtk-2.51.1/Source/WTF/wtf/text/UniquedStringImpl.h:28:
In file included from /build/reproducible-path/webkit2gtk-2.51.1/Source/WTF/wtf/text/StringImpl.h:44:
/build/reproducible-path/webkit2gtk-2.51.1/Source/WTF/wtf/text/StringCommon.h:249:17: error: redefinition of 'a' with a different type: 'const char *' vs 'const Latin1Character *' (aka 'const unsigned char *')
  249 |     const char* a = byteCast<char>(a);
      |                 ^
/build/reproducible-path/webkit2gtk-2.51.1/Source/WTF/wtf/text/StringCommon.h:244:49: note: previous definition is here
  244 | ALWAYS_INLINE bool equal(const Latin1Character* a, std::span<const Latin1Character> b)
      |                                                 ^

There are several other related errors, see here for full details: https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=webkit2gtk&arch=i386&ver=2.51.1-1&stamp=1761493485&raw=0

[Michael Catanzaro]

Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/53159

[Alberto Garcia]

I confirm that the x86 build succeeds with this patch, thanks!

[EWS]

Committed 302344@main (2a2707faa14a): <https://commits.webkit.org/302344@main>

Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #53159 and removing active labels.