From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18289 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2013 19:11:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 18276 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jul 2013 19:11:03 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com (HELO homiemail-a47.g.dreamhost.com) (208.113.200.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:11:02 +0000 Received: from homiemail-a47.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a47.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7CC28406E; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:11:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from redwood.eagercon.com (c-50-148-128-197.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [50.148.128.197]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eager@eagerm.com) by homiemail-a47.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 719F528406C; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:11:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51DDB1C5.6010201@eagerm.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:11:00 -0000 From: Michael Eager User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker CC: Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Build regression on CentOS-5 [Re: [PATCH 3/3] add -Wold-style-definition] References: <1371494572-26594-1-git-send-email-tromey@redhat.com> <1371494572-26594-4-git-send-email-tromey@redhat.com> <20130702080754.GA24111@host2.jankratochvil.net> <87hagcela1.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <87a9m4el8y.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <51DD910A.9040501@eagerm.com> <877ggyffou.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20130710182417.GG8063@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20130710182417.GG8063@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-07/txt/msg00294.txt.bz2 On 07/10/13 11:24, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> I'm partly of the opinion that folks with very old versions of developer >> tools should either disable the warnings or upgrade their tools. >> Otherwise we're letting bad versions of flex, etc, hold things back. > > FWIW, I agree. Yes, me too. Fine with me if you don't apply the patch. I'm working on a system which has flex-2.5.4 installed, which seems to data from 1997. I'll build a local version. -- Michael Eager eager@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077