[pacman-dev] heads-up - master branch compile failure with gcc-4.6

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun Mar 27 21:57:27 EDT 2011


On 28/03/11 11:43, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>> On 26/03/11 12:52, Allan McRae wrote:
>>>
>>> Just a heads-up that the upcoming gcc-4.6 release will cause a build
>>> failure when building with --enable-debug (which sets -Werror...)
>>>
>>> be_package.c: In function 'pkg_load':
>>> be_package.c:257:7: error: variable 'ret' set but not used
>>> [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
>>> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>>>
>>>
>>> Clearly something on the TODO list anyway!
>>>
>>> /* TODO: do something with ret value */
>>> ret = _alpm_load_signature(pgpfile,&(newpkg->pgpsig));
>>>
>>
>> Similar thing in db.c.    You can grab a "fix" from my working branch until
>> this gets properly dealt with.
>
> I don't think you ever pushed this fix anywhere.
>

Oops...  have done now.  And when you see it you will realise that it 
clearly is not a real fix!  :P

Allan


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