# New GDAL related bug with installing on Arch linux

**URL:** https://discourse.gplates.org/t/new-gdal-related-bug-with-installing-on-arch-linux/3256
**Category:** Bug Reports
**Created:** [23 May 2026 20:59 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/new-gdal-related-bug-with-installing-on-arch-linux/3256 "2026-05-23T20:59:17Z")
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### Author: ![MrUks](https://discourse.gplates.org/user_avatar/discourse.gplates.org/mruks/32/672_2.png) [@MrUks](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/MrUks)
#### Post date: [23 May 2026 20:59 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/new-gdal-related-bug-with-installing-on-arch-linux/3256/1 "2026-05-23T20:59:17Z")

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I had to do a reset today due to some stuff I had broken on my arch linux and found a new error during compilation:

```auto
[21%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/gplates-lib.dir/file-io/GdalRasterWriter.cc.o /home/mruks/GPlates/src/file-io/GdalRasterWriter.cc: In function ‘bool {anonymous}::does_driver_support_creation(const char*)’: /home/mruks/GPlates/src/file-io/GdalRasterWriter.cc:104:61: error: invalid conversion from ‘CSLConstList’ {aka ‘const char* const*’} to ‘char**’ [-fpermissive] 104 | char**driver_metadata = driver->GetMetadata(); | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~ | | | CSLConstList {aka const char* const*} /home/mruks/GPlates/src/file-io/GdalRasterWriter.cc: In function ‘std::vector<GPlatesPropertyValues::RasterType::Type> {anonymous}::get_supported_band_types(const char*)’: /home/mruks/GPlates/src/file-io/GdalRasterWriter.cc:138:61: error: invalid conversion from ‘CSLConstList’ {aka ‘const char* const*’} to ‘char**’ [-fpermissive] 138 | char**driver_metadata = driver->GetMetadata(); |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~ | | | CSLConstList {aka const char* const*} /home/mruks/GPlates/src/file-io/GdalRasterWriter.cc: In constructor ‘GPlatesFileIO::GDALRasterWriter::GDALRasterWriter(const QString&, const GPlatesFileIO::RasterWriter::FormatInfo&, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int, GPlatesPropertyValues::RasterType::Type, bool)’: /home/mruks/GPlates/src/file-io/GdalRasterWriter.cc:440:65: error: invalid conversion from ‘CSLConstList’ {aka ‘const char* const*’} to ‘char**’ [-fpermissive] 440 | char**file_driver_metadata = d_file_driver->GetMetadata(); | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^~ | | | CSLConstList {aka const char* const*} make[2]: ***[src/CMakeFiles/gplates-lib.dir/build.make:3507: src/CMakeFiles/gplates-lib.dir/file-io/GdalRasterWriter.cc.o] Error 1 make[1]:*** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:600: src/CMakeFiles/gplates-lib.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2

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What I found weird is that I actually used my updated package list, so didn’t know what was wrong. I even added doxygen, dpkg, debhelper and devscripts to allow for documentation and debian package support in case something went wrong with an update. I did some digging and found out this apparently is due to an issue with a newer version of GDAL.

Lines like `char **GetMetadata()` don’t get supported anymore. Apparently \*\* isn’t accepted anymore. So the workaround for me (this is honestly way further than what I know about c++ so a workarround was easier then go into the code to figure it out 😅 ) according to the forums is instead of:

> cmake .  
> make

it should be this:

> cmake -DCMAKE\_CXX\_FLAGS=“-fpermissive” .  
> make -j$(nproc)

From what I understood it turns the \*\* errors into warnings, which allow it to compile. No idea if that’s a good thing or not. If I messed it up in some way, please let me know 🙂

Thank you in advance for letting me know what you guys think about this 🙂

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### Author: ![john.cannon](https://discourse.gplates.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3e96dc/32.png) [@john.cannon](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/john.cannon)
#### Post date: [25 May 2026 02:12 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/new-gdal-related-bug-with-installing-on-arch-linux/3256/2 "2026-05-25T02:12:48Z")

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Thanks, I also encountered this error recently while compiling on conda - the fix will be in the GPlates repository soon.

> [@MrUks](#):
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> “-fpermissive”

This should be fine for this error (since `CSLConstList` just adds some `const` to `char **`). This situation is a good use case for this, but yes, in general I’d be wary of using that compiler flag.