Re: Building m4 with hardened flags

[Santiago Vila]

On Mon, 7 May 2012, Eric Blake wrote:

> On 05/06/2012 06:06 AM, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > Every other test seems to be ok.
> > 
> > What would you recommend? Should I just disable this code and keep
> > "-Werror=format-security"?  Or maybe there is a bug somewhere?
> 
> This is no bug, but a result of you trying to use more compiler flags
> than the unit test was designed for.  This issue was already raised on
> the gnulib list (the owner of the unit test in question), and the
> decision was to do nothing:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-04/msg00016.html

Ok, I agree with that, so I've disabled format string checking.

Thanks a lot.