Re: msys/mingw warnings about string length and putenv absence with gcc -Wall -ansi

[Chris Pickett]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > > If I compile my project on MSYS/MinGW with gcc -Wall -ansi (plus other
> > > warning stuff that shouldn't matter here) I get two unexpected
> > > warnings. Problem 1 is string lengths that are too long, problem 2 is
> > > a missing putenv declaration.  Based on a previous bug report, it
> > > seems the string lengths
> > Neither of these issues seem to have anything to do with libtool so why
> > are you posting about the issue with your code here?

Sorry Bob, could have explained better.

> Actually, I believe the OP's issues occur when compiling the libtool
> exectable wrapper program, so it definitely involves libtool. The
> problem(s) occur when the surrounding project is compiled using
> non-default CFLAGS (like -ansi) -- these CFLAGS propagate to the
> LTCOMPILE command used to build the (libtool-provided) cwrapper program.
>
> Problem #1 was fixed here:
>
> commit d34008adff36714b3a593da2377202df0d94bffe
> Author: Charles Wilson
> Date:   Fri Apr 25 21:08:04 2008 -0400
>
>     Ensure cwrapper compiles without warnings under -std=c99.

That looks like the fix for the previous bug I mentioned.  I already 
have this since I'm using 2.2.6a.  This new problem is C89.

> Problem #2
>
> +# ifdef __STRICT_ANSI__
> +int putenv (char *);
> +# endif

Thanks!

Chris