updating to gdb 12.1 was Re: RFC Add --disable-werror to gdb, etc

[Joel Sherrill]

The same issue is in gdb 12.1 and is still present in the gdb master.

I have fixed this locally and will create a patch.

Any thoughts on me updating to gdb 12.1 at the same time?

--joel

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:52 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:

> Well I missed that we already build with --disable-werror. This is
> something I guess I will have to deal with.
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:48 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> On Cygwin with gcc 11.3.0 as the native compiler, the build of gdb fails
>> with:
>>
>>   CXX    cp-name-parser.o
>> ../../gdb-11.2/gdb/completer.c: In function ‘char*
>> gdb_completion_word_break_characters_throw()’:
>> ../../gdb-11.2/gdb/completer.c:2014:10: error: invalid conversion from
>> ‘const char*’ to ‘char*’ [-fpermissive]
>>  2014 |   return rl_completer_word_break_characters;
>>       |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>       |          |
>>       |          const char*
>> make[2]: *** [Makefile:1641: completer.o] Error 1
>>
>> Do we want to chase these?  When we lock down tool versions and host
>> compilers continue to improve, we are just begging for having to fix these
>> types of issues. We have enough warnings of our own to fix. :)
>>
>> I'd like to add --disable-werror to at least the default gdb build. And
>> suggest we consider for any other package that has enable-werror by default.
>>
>> Thoughts.
>>
>> --joel
>>
>
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