[Spice-devel] Error compiling Spice

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 11:20 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:09:01AM +0200, Andrea Celestino wrote:
> > I have downloaded from git the spice code, the spice protocol and pixman. I
> > have installed pixman first then the protocol and finally the spice server
> > and client(with bulding instructions in the wiki page). When I compile spice
> > server and client I see a compiling error.
> > I do "configure" then "make"  but the terminal show me:
> > 
> > 
> >   CC     glz_encoder_dictionary.lo
> > cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> > glz_encoder_dictionary.c: In function ‘glz_dictionary_pre_encode’:
> > glz_encoder_dictionary.c:488:22: error: ‘prev_seg_id’ may be used
> > uninitialized in this function
> 
> Looking at the code, prev_seg_id initialization is a bit convoluted, but I
> think this warning is a false positive. We could intialize it to 0 to make
> it disappear. What gcc version are you using?
> You can avoid the compilation failing on this warning by passing
> --disable-werror to configure/autogen.sh

Out of curiosity as a programming ignoramus, is treating warnings as
errors normal practice? - John