From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:50:03 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Analysis of build failures In-Reply-To: <39A54937CC95F24AA2F794E2D2B66B1356D2009A@de02wembxa.internal.synopsys.com> References: <20140912063012.AF99B100DEE@stock.ovh.net> <20140912101105.1e932cb8@free-electrons.com> <39A54937CC95F24AA2F794E2D2B66B1356D2009A@de02wembxa.internal.synopsys.com> Message-ID: <20140912115003.23dbfff3@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Anton Kolesov, On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 09:45:26 +0000, Anton Kolesov wrote: > This issue has been reported to our compiler engineers half a year ago. That > seems to be a bug in the type definitions in ARC GCC, because GCC expects > arguments of type "signed size_t", yet it doesn't even allows to declare a > variable of this type. I've just sent a reminder about this issue to the team. Ok. > As a workaround we can submit patch that will add -Wno-error=format to this > package. Is it ok? That would be OK, but a better fix would be to change the package to remove -Werror entirely, or at least make it conditional (in which case the patch could be proposed upstream). Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com