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Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Tobias" == Tobias Hahn <tobias.hahn@ableton.com> writes:
>>>>>>             
>
> Tobias> By the way: Why do the makefiles include -Wformat, -Wformat-nonliteral
> Tobias> and -Werror? I agree that this would be a best pratice if the code
> Tobias> were clean, but with literally thousands of these kinds of errors it
> Tobias> just gives me as a user a hard time trying to get a build.
>
> I don't know the answer, but I definitely don't see thousands of such
> warnings on my Fedora 11 box.
>
>   
I'm sure it's an OS X thing - the headers have all kinds of BSD-ish and 
Mach-ish arcana that are different from other systems for, uh, 
deeply-thought-out and carefully-documented reasons. :-)  One could get 
GDB to a clean build with OS X, but it would be a lot of macro gymnastics.

Stan