Re: [bug-gsrc] Bug in compiling dico

[Jean Louis]

Hello Carl,

I have nothing changed. Compiled over 400+ packages in last 10 days, but
few like dico do not work out of the box.

I have gcc 5.3.0. How would I change settings to warning?

Jean

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:15:08PM -0700, carl hansen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Jean Louis <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Dico is great dictionary tool, and it is GNU software. I have tried
> > contacting the author but it was problem with email.
> >
> > Dico is part of GSRC. So here is the bug below. I need help to compile
> > it, even with patches as dictionary use will be employed in Tanzania,
> > where people do not have Internet connection.
> >
> > Jean Louis
> >
> >   ---
> > make[4]: Entering directory '/sources/gnu/dico-2.2/gnu'
> >   CC     localcharset.o
> > In file included from localcharset.c:30:0:
> > ./stdio.h:479:1: error: ‘gets’ undeclared here (not in a function)
> >  _GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
> >  ^
> > Makefile:1207: recipe for target 'localcharset.o' failed
> > make[4]: *** [localcharset.o] Error 1
> >
> >
> > Works for me. My ./stdio.h is a little different. Maybe you have setting
> set to change WARNINGs
> into ERRORs, which stops the compilation.
> 
> I'm using gcc 5.3.  Which version of gcc are you using?
> 
> You could mess with the source to get around this. "gets()" is now
> deprecated , and it seems
> your problem arises from something having to do with that...