Subject: bug#24228: [bug-diffutils] bug#24228: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: diffutils-3.4.9-d647

From: Dagobert Michelsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:41:45 +0200

Hi Jim,

Am 10.09.2016 um 05:10 schrieb Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Jim Meyering <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>> Hi Jim,
>>> 
>>> Am 19.08.2016 um 06:18 schrieb Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>:
>>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>>>> Am 15.08.2016 um 07:33 schrieb Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>:
>>>> ...
>>>>>> http://meyering.net/diff/diffutils-3.4.9-d647.tar.xz
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you for testing.
>>>> 
>>>>> I get this error on Solaris 10 Sparc with GCC 5.2, same for
>>>>> Solaris 11 Sparc with GCC 5.2:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> CC       rawmemchr.o
>>>>>> rawmemchr.c: In function 'rawmemchr':
>>>>>> rawmemchr.c:49:18: error: cast increases required alignment of target type [-Werror=cast-align]
>>>>>>  longword_ptr = (const longword *) char_ptr;
>>>>>>                 ^
>>>>>> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>>>>>> gmake[2]: *** [Makefile:1784: rawmemchr.o] Error 255
>>>> 
>>>> In this case, I think the best advice it not to with warnings enabled
>>>> (don't use configure's --enable-gcc-warnings) unless you're using a
>>>> sufficiently modern system, probably glibc-based.
>>> 
>>> Ok.

I added this to the buildbot and everything is green now.

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Best regards

  — Dago

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