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[bug-diffutils] bug#63670: CI failure due to warning in diff.c
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Paul Eggert |
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[bug-diffutils] bug#63670: CI failure due to warning in diff.c |
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Wed, 24 May 2023 10:25:45 -0700 |
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On 2023-05-23 09:46, Bruno Haible wrote:
The diffutils CI reports a build failure:
CC diff.o
../../../sources/diffutils/src/diff.c: In function 'compare_files':
../../../sources/diffutils/src/diff.c:1209:8: error: missing initializer for
field 'name' of 'struct file_data' [-Werror=missing-field-initializers]
I don't know how to find out the details of the diffutils CI build.
However, I think the bug is probably that the build was using GCC 11.1
or 11.2, which is buggy in this area. I installed the attached patches
to Gnulib to work around that problem.
If you're configuring with --enable-gcc-warnings or equivalent, it's
better to use current GCC. Older versions of GCC have several problems
in this area, and although I went to the trouble of working around this
particular problem I doubt whether it's worth our time to worry about
all false positives generated by older GCC versions, so it might be
better to build with --disable-gcc-warnings on older platforms.
0001-manywarnings-port-better-to-GCC-11.2-and-earlier.patch
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0002-Simplify-Wno-missing-field-initializers-checking.patch
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0003-manywarnings-speed-up-nomfi-test.patch
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