Re: unused return values causing build failures in HEAD

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Julian,

"Julian Graham" <address@hidden> writes:

> So I'm trying to build Guile from HEAD after a hard drive wipe, and it
> looks like the version of gcc that ships with Ubuntu 8.10, 4.3.2, now
> warns when you don't check function return values, which of course
> breaks Guile's warnings-as-errors build.  There are several offending
> instances of this, and the functions they use are write, read, pipe,
> and nice.  I'm happy to submit a patch that raises SCM_SYSERROR or
> whatever in the appropriate places -- unless there's some other way
> around this.

You report appears to be similar to #24009:

  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24009

I'll see what can be done.

Thanks,
Ludo'.