Okelidokeli. I'll install GCC 14 on Debian/testing and start improving the code where I can.
Cheers -- Danai On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 at 05:28, Preuße, Hilmar <hill...@web.de> wrote: > Control: tags -1 + help > > On 31.07.2024 10:48, Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) wrote: > > Hi Danai, > > > When compiling wftodm.c from the latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab package, I > > get a bunch of warnings with GCC 13 (see also below Lucas' output). > > To me, these seems just fairly benign warnings based on deprecated C89 > > conventions. > > > With GCC 14 these warnings turn into errors and the build fails (as > described), so these messages are not benign. They are long standing, > though. On the other hand, they are just syntax errors; so people which > speak C, should be able to fix them. I tried do a patch, but my C > knowledge got lost over years. I tag that bug "help" for now. > > > With this bug report, I've been thinking: should we continue to put time > > and effort in a venerable but older package like CJK? > > Or do we keep this package as legacy, and forcefully ignore some of the > > warnings of the C compiler? > > > > Let me know what you think. > > > Unfortunately I don't speak CJK, I've never used any of these packages. > Hence I can't really say, how useful latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab is. The > popcon of both package are comparable (probably b/c latex-cjk-all > declares a dep on it). So, we can't simply drop it. I tend to say: let's > wait for help. > > Hilmar >
