Bug#360780: build: powerpc problem with sign of char

2006-09-11 Thread Neil Williams
Jorg, I want to clear up a few things in this bug report: 1. It's completely pointless Debian enabling -Wextra in the packaging when the number of false positives is so incredibly large. 2. Discriminating between false positives and real bugs needs someone to go through the entire codebase,

Bug#360780: build: powerpc problem with sign of char

2006-08-16 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Neil, Neil Williams schrieb am Tue 15. Aug, 19:36 (+0100): Jörg Sommer wrote: Neil Williams schrieb am Mon 14. Aug, 14:38 (+0100): Jörg Sommer wrote: Hello Neil, 2. -Wextra is *not supported* by gnucash and errors are to be expected. Don't use it. -Wextra does not generate any

Bug#360780: build: powerpc problem with sign of char

2006-08-15 Thread Neil Williams
Jörg Sommer wrote: Neil Williams schrieb am Mon 14. Aug, 14:38 (+0100): Jörg Sommer wrote: Hello Neil, 2. -Wextra is *not supported* by gnucash and errors are to be expected. Don't use it. -Wextra does not generate any errors. It warns about common cases where errors can araise. -Wextra

Bug#360780: build: powerpc problem with sign of char

2006-08-14 Thread Neil Williams
Jörg Sommer wrote: Hello Neil, 2. -Wextra is *not supported* by gnucash and errors are to be expected. Don't use it. -Wextra does not generate any errors. It warns about common cases where errors can araise. That doesn't change the fact that upstream does not support it. :-) -Wextra DOES

Bug#360780: build: powerpc problem with sign of char

2006-08-14 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Neil, Neil Williams schrieb am Mon 14. Aug, 14:38 (+0100): Jörg Sommer wrote: Hello Neil, 2. -Wextra is *not supported* by gnucash and errors are to be expected. Don't use it. -Wextra does not generate any errors. It warns about common cases where errors can araise. -Wextra

Bug#360780: build: powerpc problem with sign of char

2006-08-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you know why Thomas do not build with these libs? Are there any problems? It was not an intentional decision, and I plan to build with them on the next upload. Thomas

Bug#360780: build: powerpc problem with sign of char

2006-08-13 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Neil, Neil Williams schrieb am Sat 12. Aug, 11:49 (+0100): As such, you could rebuild with the goffice development libraries installed and use the upstream code (which is more recent than the code included in gnucash). GnuCash will automatically detect libgoffice-1-dev and libgsf-1-dev

Bug#360780: build: powerpc problem with sign of char

2006-08-13 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Neil, Neil Williams schrieb am Sat 12. Aug, 11:49 (+0100): Hi Jorg: Note: If the errors you report are in files prefixed with go- or in the lib/goffice* or lib/libgsf* directories, these are *not* gnucash errors, they are upstream GOffice issues. As such, you could rebuild with the

Bug#360780: build: powerpc problem with sign of char

2006-08-13 Thread Neil Williams
Jörg Sommer wrote: Neil Williams schrieb am Sat 12. Aug, 11:49 (+0100): GnuCash will automatically detect libgoffice-1-dev and libgsf-1-dev installations and use the associated libraries instead of building the code in lib/goffice* and lib/libgsf*. Is this valid for libqof-dev, true? I've

Bug#360780: build: powerpc problem with sign of char

2006-08-13 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Neil, Neil Williams schrieb am Sun 13. Aug, 22:56 (+0100): Jörg Sommer wrote: I see now you mentioned originally: compiling gnucash with -Wall and -Wextra brings some warnings like this: So, here's a new start for this bug: 1. -Wall is already set, don't set it again. OK, but this

Bug#360780: build: powerpc problem with sign of char

2006-08-12 Thread Neil Williams
Hi Jorg: Note: If the errors you report are in files prefixed with go- or in the lib/goffice* or lib/libgsf* directories, these are *not* gnucash errors, they are upstream GOffice issues. As such, you could rebuild with the goffice development libraries installed and use the upstream code (which

Bug#360780: build: powerpc problem with sign of char

2006-04-04 Thread Jörg Sommer
Package: gnucash Version: 1.9.3-1hbci1 Severity: normal Hi, compiling gnucash with -Wall and -Wextra brings some warnings like this: go-gradient.c:67: warning: comparison of unsigned expression 0 is always false They might come from the fact that a char is by default unsigned on PowerPC. This

Bug#360780: build: powerpc problem with sign of char

2006-04-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
severity 360780 wishlist thanks Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: gnucash Version: 1.9.3-1hbci1 Severity: normal What's that version? compiling gnucash with -Wall and -Wextra brings some warnings like this: go-gradient.c:67: warning: comparison of unsigned expression 0 is

Bug#360780: build: powerpc problem with sign of char

2006-04-04 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Thomas, Thomas Bushnell BSG schrieb am Tue 04. Apr, 13:11 (-0700): Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: gnucash Version: 1.9.3-1hbci1 Severity: normal What's that version? It's 1.9.3-1 rebuild with HBCI support. compiling gnucash with -Wall and -Wextra brings some

Bug#360780: build: powerpc problem with sign of char

2006-04-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you interessted in a patch? Yep, always.