Compile Fails in qofsession.c

Casey Cichon casey at wizkid.homelinux.net
Mon Jun 23 13:31:52 EDT 2008


Josh Sled wrote:
> Casey Cichon <casey at wizkid.homelinux.net> writes:
>   
>> After a few weeks away from using the development gnucash version to 
>> upgrade my machine from Fedora 5 to Ubuntu gutsy (soon to be hardy).  I 
>> get this when running ....
>>     
>
>   
>> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
>> qofsession.c: In function 'qof_session_save':
>> qofsession.c:1214: warning: 'msg' may be used uninitialized in this function
>>     
>
>   
>> i used the following configure line ....
>>  ./configure --enable-compile-warnings --enable-ofx --enable-doxygen
>>
>> is something broke that I just missed in the emails.
>>     
>
> You're now using a different compiler, which generates a warning on that line
> where the previous one did not.  By default, we run gcc with '-Werror', which
> promotes warnings to errors.
>
> You can choose to fix the warning in qofsession.c, or ./configure with
> "--disable-error-on-warning", which will keep building in the face of the
> warning.
>
>   
I'm going to do --disable-error-on-warning for now, but I think I might 
try to track down why that error exists later when I have some more time.

Casey


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