[Mono-devel-list] gcc4, rawhide and libgdiplus

[Ben Maurer]

> Hi,
>
> I've been hacking around on font.c to see if I can get libgdiplus to
> compile against the latest gcc4 release in Fedora rawhide.
>
> There is a problem with signedness of arguments being passed in. To see
> if I can get around this, I explicitly cast the arguments in font.c line
> 283 to be (unsigned char*) [this should not be required]. While this
> removed the strcmp warnings, it did show a problem that strlen is also
> being called incorrectly. This is now a gcc error rather than a source
> error.
>
> To that end, I've entered it the Redhat bugzilla
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=151152
>
> Hopefully, this will be sorted quickly...

For now, we should remove -Werror, if it is still there. See all the rhat
complaints about people adding that in.

-- Ben