Re: Bug#656659: info not showing anything with certain build flags

[Norbert Preining]

Hilmar, Karl, all

I have no recompiled the current CVS version, some remarks:
* dpkg-buildflags --export=configure is broken, or better
  -Werror=format-security is broken, as it reports
        footnotes.c: In function ‘info_show_footnotes’:
        footnotes.c:258:11: error: format not a string literal and no format 
arguments [-Werror=format-security]
        footnotes.c:262:11: error: format not a string literal and no format 
arguments [-Werror=format-security]
        cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
  No in respective arguments to these functions are declared as 
        const char *
  so IMHO cc should not complain. Anyway, removing the -Werror... and restart


* after removing the -Werror=format-security the compile succeeds,
  and the resulting info works also on amd64.

Bottomline, if we package new texinfo, we might add that, but have to
set
        DEB_CFLAG_MAINT_STRIP=-Werror=format-security

Best wishes

Norbert
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