Fabrizio Bertocci wrote:
> Jeff Morriss wrote:
>> For the releases we (try to) turn off warnings as errors because, well,
>> we can't clean up all the warnings on all the platform+Glib/GTK+compiler
>> combinations--especially with compiler bugs.
>>
>> For 0.99.6 warnings-as-errors was turned off in the top level configure
>> but not (by mistake) in the wiretap/configure script.
>>   
> A-Ah... well, that was the source of my problem when I tried to build on 
> RH9/RHEL3... well, again it's not a big deal, forcing it to be disabled 
> work with no problem.
> However I would recommend to be consistent with the top level settings 
> and turn off warnings-as-errors also on wiretap.
> Treating warnings as errors is useful only for a developer, but is only 
> going to create trouble for somebody that just want to use wireshark 
> (and perhaps can't find a prebuilt version for his platform).

Yeah, that was the intention, but we missed it on that release.
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