Bug 4074

Summary:

Warnings during building from source

Product:

Claws Mail (GTK 2)

Reporter:

George <removed-gdpr>

Component:

Other

Assignee:

users

Status:

RESOLVED LATER

Severity:

minor

Priority:

Version:

3.17.1

Hardware:

OS:

Linux

Attachments:

Description	Flags
warnings during make	none

Description George 2018-08-21 12:10:18 UTC

Created attachment 1904 [details]
warnings during make

STR:

1.

mkdir -p /tmp/download
cd /tmp/download
git clone git://git.claws-mail.org/claws.git claws
cd claws
./autogen.sh --quiet --enable-silent-rules

Gives warning:

...
configure.ac:49: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments forms are deprecated.  For more info, see:
configure.ac:49: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Modernize-AM_005fINIT_005fAUTOMAKE-invocation
configure.ac:86: installing 'config/compile'
...


2.

export CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native"
export CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
./configure \
    --quiet \
    --build=$(uname -m)-suse-linux-gnu \
    --prefix=/opt/claws-mail \
    --disable-jpilot \
    --disable-maintainer-mode \
    --disable-manual \
    --disable-static \
    --enable-bogofilter-plugin \
    --enable-crash-dialog \
    --enable-enchant \
    --enable-gnutls \
    --enable-ldap \
    --enable-pgpmime-plugin \
    --enable-silent-rules \
    --enable-spamassassin-plugin \
    --disable-dillo-plugin \
    --disable-fancy-plugin

3.

make --jobs=$(nproc) --quiet

Gives warnings (see attachment)



Regardless of those everything works in the final build.

version 3.17.0git8

Comment 1 Paul 2018-08-21 12:38:29 UTC

we all build the source, we all see the warnings. there is nothing to gain (which is worth gaining) by reporting it here.

Comment 2 George 2018-08-21 13:54:19 UTC

> we all see the warnings

I cannot possibly see what you see and vice versa. But I have seen programs which build without warning on one system and with warnings on another (depending on software versions, options etc).

The reason for reporting it as a bug is not an attempt to "gain" something. A warning is an indication that something is not right and that's the reason for sharing it - in case someone may want to have a closer look before it leads to more serious issues.

Comment 3 Paul 2018-08-21 14:25:45 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> I cannot possibly see what you see and vice versa.

Actually, the contrary is true.