vicious build and pointer arithmetic

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

I'm building gnome2 using the vicious scripts (nice work).  One snag
I'm hitting (Linux 2.4.17, glibc 2.2.5, gcc 2.95.3) is the combination
of -Wpointer-arith and -Werror in some of the Makefiles. gcc generates
warnings relating to /usr/include/bits/string2.h in respect of
arithmetic on void * pointers and so if -Werror is set the build
aborts.

I can push the process along by editing "-Werror" out of the relevant
Makefiles, but there must be a more systematic fix.  Can I be the only
one hitting this problem?

Allin Cottrell.