Bug#625378: libtasn1-3: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Tue May 3 11:13:56 UTC 2011


Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org> writes:

> Package: libtasn1-3
> Version: 2.9-3
> Severity: important
> Tags: wheezy sid
> User: debian-gcc at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: ftbfs-gcc-4.6 ftbfs-werror
>
> This package builds with -Werror, and GCC 4.6 triggers new warnings
> which will make the package fail to build.  Currently a Debian patch
> just passes
>     -Wno-error=unused-but-set-variable and
>     -Wno-error=unused-but-set-parameter
> to avoid build failures, but this patch will be reverted with the
> GCC 4.6.1 release, and the severity of the report will be raised.
>
> The full build log can be found at:
> http://people.debian.org/~doko/tmp/werror/libtasn1-3_2.9-3_lsid64.buildlog
> The last lines of the build log are at the end of this report.

That build seems successful to me?  I can't find anything in that build
log to suggest that -Werror is used at all.  Libtasn1 does not build
with -Werror unless --enable-gcc-warnings is passed to ./configure, and
I don't see any signs of this in the Debian packaging scripts.

False positive?

/Simon





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