[swfmill] 0.2.12.6 no longer compiles with gcc/g++ 4.4.1

[armencho at gmail.com]

Just checked out swfmill 0.2.12.6 with "bzr co lp:swfmill" (as
suggested on mailing list by Daniel Cassidy)

System is Ubuntu 9.10 i386 with gcc/g++ 4.4.1 (g++ -v output quoted at
the end of this message)

I am getting a compile error when doing make after ./configure:

 g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"swfmill\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"swfmill\"
-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"0.2.12.6\" "-DPACKAGE_STRING=\"swfmill 0.2.12.6\""
"-DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"dan at subsignal.org \"" -DPACKAGE=\"swfmill\"
-DVERSION=\"0.2.12.6\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1
-DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1
-DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1
-DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -I.
-I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/freetype2
-I/usr/include/libpng12 -I../ -g -O2 -MT libswft_la-swft_import.lo -MD
-MP -MF .deps/libswft_la-swft_import.Tpo -c swft_import.cpp  -fPIC
-DPIC -o .libs/libswft_la-swft_import.o
swft_import.cpp: In function 'void swft_addFileName(xmlNode*, const char*)':
swft_import.cpp:13: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
make[3]: *** [libswft_la-swft_import.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/amn/.post-install-setup/.cache/swfmill-src/swfmill-0.2.12.6/src/swft'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/amn/.post-install-setup/.cache/swfmill-src/swfmill-0.2.12.6/src'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/amn/.post-install-setup/.cache/swfmill-src/swfmill-0.2.12.6/src'

As it appears, the error has to do with error on implicit casting of a
"const char *filename" to a "char *" when being passed as a parameter
to the 'strrchr' call on line 13 in function body of
'swft_addFileName" in file src/swft/swft_import.cpp

Should the implicit casting work? Why does 4.4.1 suddenly reject it
while earlier gcc accepted it. Perhaps a compiler switch is set wrong?
Or is no longer used by the compiler?

I have compiled Scintilla and Scite with it without problems, both
also use the traditional "./configure && make && sudo make install"
procedure..

"g++ -v" output:

Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu
4.4.1-4ubuntu8'
--with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.4/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr
--enable-shared --enable-multiarch --enable-linker-build-id
--with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext
--enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.4
--program-suffix=-4.4 --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-objc-gc --enable-targets=all
--disable-werror --with-arch-32=i486 --with-tune=generic
--enable-checking=release --build=i486-linux-gnu --host=i486-linux-gnu
--target=i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu8)