| Summary: | sci-libs/vtk-8.1.0-r2 needs a patch for Python_3.7 | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Helmut Jarausch <jarausch> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Science Related Packages <sci> |
| Status: | RESOLVED OBSOLETE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | jstein, mgorny |
| Priority: | Normal | Keywords: | PATCH |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | 715828 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 695996 | ||
| Attachments: | patch for Python 3.7 | ||
Created attachment 547340 [details, diff] patch for Python 3.7 Python_3.7 has changed its API, function PyUnicode_AsUTF8 returns a const char* pointer while Python_3.6 returned a char* pointer. The attached patch is an ugly work-around (const_cast). The real fix should be provided by upstreams.