Re: Problems building EPICS base3.14.12.4 for i386 and armhf

[Jani Hakala <jani.j.hakala@jyu.fi>]

Florian Feldbauer <florian@ep1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> The packages should be build for the architectures amd64, i386 and armhf.
> For amd64 everything works smoothly. But for the other two I got lots
> of warnings
> when compiling Cap5.c from base3.14.12.4 (see log below)
> Additionally the above compiler flags include "-Werror=format-security"
> which causes the compilation of Cap5.c to fail with an error.
>
> Is there a way to fix this problem without removing the compiler flags?
>
You could try modifying file Cap5.xs by replacing instances of

    croak(get_error_msg(status));

with

    croak("%s", get_error_msg(status));


This kind of change is in essence suggested in
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Format-Security-FAQ 


Jani Hakala