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Re: Building m4 with hardened flags

by Santiago Vila :: Rate this Message:

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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.

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