[bug-diffutils] bug#24228: bug#24228: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: diffutils-3.4.9-d647

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Am 10.09.2016 um 05:10 schrieb Jim Meyering <address@hidden>:
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Hi Jim,
>>>>
>>>> Am 19.08.2016 um 06:18 schrieb Jim Meyering <address@hidden>:
>>>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <address@hidden> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Am 15.08.2016 um 07:33 schrieb Jim Meyering <address@hidden>:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-3.4.9-d647.tar.xz
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for testing.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I get this error on Solaris 10 Sparc with GCC 5.2, same for
>>>>>> Solaris 11 Sparc with GCC 5.2:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> CC       rawmemchr.o
>>>>>>> rawmemchr.c: In function 'rawmemchr':
>>>>>>> rawmemchr.c:49:18: error: cast increases required alignment of target 
>>>>>>> type [-Werror=cast-align]
>>>>>>>  longword_ptr = (const longword *) char_ptr;
>>>>>>>                 ^
>>>>>>> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>>>>>>> gmake[2]: *** [Makefile:1784: rawmemchr.o] Error 255
>>>>>
>>>>> In this case, I think the best advice it not to with warnings enabled
>>>>> (don't use configure's --enable-gcc-warnings) unless you're using a
>>>>> sufficiently modern system, probably glibc-based.
>>>>
>>>> Ok.
>
> I added this to the buildbot and everything is green now.
>
>> I've just created a new mailing list: address@hidden
>> Please use that for your new cibiuld tool, assuming it will not spam
>> the list too much, of course.
>
> There will only be an email send when it transitions from good to bad or
> vice versa.

Great! Thanks again for setting this up.