[Slackbuilds-users] Fontforge build error

[Rich Shepard]

   fontforge-20170731 built on my 14-2/x86 desktop but fails to complete on
the new 14-2/x86_64 box (with AlienBOB's multilibs installed). The cause of
the error is not obvious to me looking at the output:

collabclientui.c:462:1: note: in expansion of macro ‘G_DEFINE_TYPE’
  G_DEFINE_TYPE (CollabSessionCallbacks, collab_sessioncallbacks, G_TYPE_OBJECT)
  ^
In file included from /usr/lib/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h:9:0,
                  from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:32,
                  from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/galloca.h:32,
                  from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:30,
                  from ../fontforge/ffglib.h:27,
                  from ../fontforge/collabclientpriv.h:67,
                  from collabclientui.c:29:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h:182:53: error: size of array ‘_GStaticAssertCompileTimeAssertion_2’ is negative
  #define G_STATIC_ASSERT(expr) typedef char G_PASTE (_GStaticAssertCompileTimeAssertion_, __COUNTER_
                                                      ^
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h:179:47: note: in definition of macro ‘G_PASTE_ARGS’
  #define G_PASTE_ARGS(identifier1,identifier2) identifier1 ## identifier2
                                                ^
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h:182:44: note: in expansion of macro ‘G_PASTE’
  #define G_STATIC_ASSERT(expr) typedef char G_PASTE (_GStaticAssertCompileTimeAssertion_, __COUNTER_
                                             ^
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:256:5: note: in expansion of macro ‘G_STATIC_ASSERT’
      G_STATIC_ASSERT (sizeof *(location) == sizeof (gpointer));       \
      ^
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gtype.h:1972:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘g_once_init_leave’
        g_once_init_leave (&g_define_type_id__volatile, g_define_type_id); \
        ^
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gtype.h:1729:117: note: in expansion of macro ‘_G_DEFINE_TYPE_EXTENDED_END’
  ED(TN, t_n, T_P, _f_, _C_)     _G_DEFINE_TYPE_EXTENDED_BEGIN (TN, t_n, T_P, _f_) {_C_;} _G_DEFINE_T
                                                                                          ^
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gtype.h:1587:43: note: in expansion of macro ‘G_DEFINE_TYPE_EXTENDED’
  #define G_DEFINE_TYPE(TN, t_n, T_P)       G_DEFINE_TYPE_EXTENDED (TN, t_n, T_P, 0, {})
                                            ^
collabclientui.c:462:1: note: in expansion of macro ‘G_DEFINE_TYPE’
  G_DEFINE_TYPE (CollabSessionCallbacks, collab_sessioncallbacks, G_TYPE_OBJECT)
  ^
Makefile:2403: recipe for target 'libfontforgeexe_la-collabclientui.lo' failed
make[3]: *** [libfontforgeexe_la-collabclientui.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/fontforge-20170731/fontforgeexe'
Makefile:2524: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/fontforge-20170731/fontforgeexe'
Makefile:1580: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/fontforge-20170731'
Makefile:1417: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

   Please suggest how I should proceed to fix this.

Rich