Re: a possible findutils OR gcc error.

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 3/10/22 05:26, George R Goffe wrote:
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../..     -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-conversion 
> -Wno-float-equal -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-undef -Wno-unused-function 
> -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-float-conversion -Wimplicit-fallthrough 
> -Wno-pedantic -Wno-sign-conversion -Wno-type-limits 
> -Wno-unsuffixed-float-constants -g -O2 -Werror -MT libgnulib_a-canonicalize.o 
> -MD -MP -MF .deps/libgnulib_a-canonicalize.Tpo -c -o 
> libgnulib_a-canonicalize.o `test -f 'canonicalize.c' || echo 
> './'`canonicalize.c
> canonicalize.c: In function 'canonicalize_filename_mode':
> canonicalize.c:484:5: error: #warning "GCC might issue a bogus 
> -Wreturn-local-addr warning here." [-Werror=cpp]
>   484 |    #warning "GCC might issue a bogus -Wreturn-local-addr warning 
> here."
>       |     ^~~~~~~
> canonicalize.c:485:5: error: #warning "See 
> <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93644>." [-Werror=cpp]
>   485 |    #warning "See 
> <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93644>."
>       |     ^~~~~~~
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

You are compiling with -Werror, and therefore this warning lets the build 
process stop.
Typically, this is a developer option.

Did you use configure's --enable-compiler-warnings-are-errors option? Or have 
otherwise
the -Werror in the CFLAGS environment?

Have a nice day,
Berny