Re: ORBit, OAF fails to compile with gcc 2.95.2

[Remco van de Meent <remco dnd utwente nl>]

Andy Tai wrote:
> Hi, this may count as a minor bug.  The latest releases of OAF 0.4.0 
> fails to compile with gcc 2.95.2, with the following error:
> 
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I.. -I../liboaf -I../liboaf -I/opt/gnome/installed/lib/glib/include -I/opt/gnome/installed/include -I/opt/gnome/installed/lib/glib/include -I/opt/gnome/installed/include -DVERSION=\"0.4.0\" -O2 -fpermissive -O2 -fpermissive -Wall -Wno-uninitialized -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wno-sign-compare -Wsign-promo -Werror -c  -fPIC -DPIC oaf-stubs.c -o oaf-stubs.lo
> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> In file included from /usr/include/string.h:346,
> 		 from oaf-stubs.c:5:
> 		 /usr/include/bits/string2.h: In function `__strcpy_small':
> 		 /usr/include/bits/string2.h:419: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arithmetic
> 
> 
> It seems gcc does not allow these warnings and refuses to continue.
> System: Red Hat 6.2 with gcc 2.95.2

You may want to remove the -Werror flag from the compile options in the
Makefiles. Maybe this isn't the correct way to solve it, but at least
it seems to work.

Cheers,
Remco.