On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 07:34 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/10/2015 06:22 AM, Marek Polacek wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 02:43:25PM -0700, Jerry James wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Marek Polacek <polacek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> bigloo-4.1a-6.2.fc22.src.rpm > >>> memstomp-0.1.4-15.fc22.src.rpm > >>> build failure due to gnu11 change: -Wimplicit-int is turned on by default now, > >>> which is the reason these packages didn't compile properly. See the porting_to > >>> document for more details. > >> > >> The bigloo failure had nothing to do with -Wimplicit-int. One file > >> that should have been compiled with -fPIC wasn't. I don't know why > >> this didn't cause problems before. Fixed in Rawhide. > > > > IIRC bigloo contains various "autoconf" shell scripts with K&R code in > > them (that fail with -Werror now) > > Remove these -Werrors and tell upstream to not use -Werror. > -Werror turns harmless warnings into errors. > > As autoconf scripts are based on compilers issuing errors only on real > errors and not on otherwise harmless warnings, -Werror is not useful > with autoconf scripts and is _guaranteed_ to break autoconf scripts, > because the items GCC warns about are changing with each GCC-release and > also depend on other factors (CFLAGS) in effect. If only there was some way to use different CFLAGS for configure than for the project. - ajax -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
