Source: elfutils Version: 0.170-0.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch upstream User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap
elfutils upstream enables -Werror for compilation by default. This has caused FTBFS with gcc-6 and gcc-7 and is going to cause FTBFS with gcc-8 soon. Using -Werror is good if those issues are fixed proactively. However that is not the case with elfutils. Instead, the package needs to be NMUed. In the mean time, this hurts architecture bootstrap (which sometimes has to use unreleased compilers) and other users who try to build elfutils. Thus I think that the Debian packaging should disable -Werror. I still recommend doing maintainer builds with -Werror, but please save everyone else from the fallout. Helmut
Index: elfutils-0.170/config/eu.am =================================================================== --- elfutils-0.170.orig/config/eu.am +++ elfutils-0.170/config/eu.am @@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ -Wold-style-definition -Wstrict-prototypes \ $(LOGICAL_OP_WARNING) $(DUPLICATED_COND_WARNING) \ $(NULL_DEREFERENCE_WARNING) $(IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH_WARNING) \ - $(if $($(*F)_no_Werror),,-Werror) \ $(if $($(*F)_no_Wunused),,-Wunused -Wextra) \ $(if $($(*F)_no_Wstack_usage),,$(STACK_USAGE_WARNING)) \ $($(*F)_CFLAGS)
