It's a misfeature of older FreeBSD releases really, but they have declared dlerror as returning const char * instead of char *. This leads to the error:
plugins.c: In function 'bool load_plugins(void*, void*, const char*, const char*, bool (*)(Plugin*))': plugins.c:162: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*' The declaration is fixed in the latest FreeBSD, but the following patch works around it in Bacula: --- src/lib/plugins.c.orig 2012-01-23 14:56:28.775678852 +0000 +++ src/lib/plugins.c 2012-01-23 15:06:06.752865296 +0000 @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ plugin->file_len = strstr(plugin->file, type) - plugin->file; plugin->pHandle = dlopen(fname.c_str(), RTLD_NOW); if (!plugin->pHandle) { - char *error = dlerror(); + char *error = (char *)dlerror(); Jmsg(NULL, M_ERROR, 0, _("dlopen plugin %s failed: ERR=%s\n"), fname.c_str(), NPRT(error)); Dmsg2(dbglvl, "dlopen plugin %s failed: ERR=%s\n", fname.c_str(), __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel