On 12/17/2012 11:20 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 12/17/2012 11:50 AM, Z. Majeed wrote:
>> Building latest git source in a non-src directory on cygwin win7 with gcc 4.5.3 is broken

>> I had to configure --disable-gcc-warnings to avoid the following errors because gcc 4.5.3 is the latest on cygwin
>  > and not covered by the ignore warnings pragma in extern-inline.m4 for gcc 4.6 and higher:
>>    CC       dtotimespec.o
>> In file included from dtotimespec.c:25:0:
>> timespec.h:58:1: error: no previous declaration for 'timespec_cmp'
>> [-Werror=missing-declarations]
>>   timespec_cmp (struct timespec a, struct timespec b)
>
> That's a possible gnulib issue. I'll CC there separately.

It could be avoided in gnulib as detailed here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-12/msg00087.html

But I think the attached coreutils patch
which just avoids auto enabling all these gcc
warnings on older compilers is more appropriate.

thanks,
Pádraig.