Don't treat compiler warnings as errors

While compiling on a Raspberry Pi5 with Raspberry Pi OS based on Debian 12, and on ARM, what normally is seen as a compiler warning was there treated as an error. Passing a flag to the compiler to not treat a warning as an error.

Author: teusbenschop

Makefile.am

@@ -647,7 +647,9 @@ generate_LDADD = libbibledit.a
 AM_CFLAGS = -g
 AM_CFLAGS += $(OPENSSL_CFLAGS)
 
-AM_CXXFLAGS = -fno-var-tracking -g
+# Compiling on some systems may treat warnings as errors.
+# Pass a flag to the compiler to treat a warning not as an error
+AM_CXXFLAGS = -fno-var-tracking -g -Wno-error
 if COMPILERWARNINGS
 AM_CFLAGS += -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wextra -pedantic -Wno-pragmas
 AM_CXXFLAGS += -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wextra -pedantic -Wshadow -Warray-bounds -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wconversion -Wctor-dtor-privacy -Wdelete-non-virtual-dtor -Weffc++ -Wextra-semi -Wfloat-equal -Wformat=2 -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wmissing-noreturn -Wnull-dereference -Wold-style-cast -Woverloaded-virtual -Wredundant-decls -Wsign-promo -Wsuggest-override -Wswitch-default -Wswitch-enum -Wundef -Wuninitialized -Wunused-but-set-parameter -Wunused-macros -Wunused-parameter -Wvla -Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant -Wmismatched-tags

Makefile.in

@@ -1731,9 +1731,12 @@ generate_SOURCES = \
 
 generate_LDADD = libbibledit.a
 AM_CFLAGS = -g $(OPENSSL_CFLAGS) $(am__append_1) $(am__append_5)
+
+# Compiling on some systems may treat warnings as errors.
+# Pass a flag to the compiler to treat a warning not as an error
 # AM_CXXFLAGS += $(TIDY_CFLAGS) -I/usr/include/tidy
-AM_CXXFLAGS = -fno-var-tracking -g $(am__append_2) $(am__append_3) \
-	$(CURL_CFLAGS) $(OPENSSL_CFLAGS) $(GTK_CFLAGS) \
+AM_CXXFLAGS = -fno-var-tracking -g -Wno-error $(am__append_2) \
+	$(am__append_3) $(CURL_CFLAGS) $(OPENSSL_CFLAGS) $(GTK_CFLAGS) \
 	$(WEBKIT2GTK_CFLAGS) $(ICU_CFLAGS) $(XML2_CFLAGS) \
 	$(UTF8PROC_CFLAGS) $(PUGIXML_CFLAGS) $(GTEST_CFLAGS) \
 	$(am__append_4)

config.h

@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
 #define PACKAGE_PREFIX_DIR "NONE"
 
 /* Define to the full name and version of this package. */
-#define PACKAGE_STRING "bibledit 5.1.032"
+#define PACKAGE_STRING "bibledit 5.1.033"
 
 /* Define to the one symbol short name of this package. */
 #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "bibledit"
@@ -101,15 +101,15 @@
 #define PACKAGE_URL ""
 
 /* Define to the version of this package. */
-#define PACKAGE_VERSION "5.1.032"
+#define PACKAGE_VERSION "5.1.033"
 
 /* Define to 1 if all of the C89 standard headers exist (not just the ones
    required in a freestanding environment). This macro is provided for
    backward compatibility; new code need not use it. */
 #define STDC_HEADERS 1
 
 /* Version number of package */
-#define VERSION "5.1.032"
+#define VERSION "5.1.033"
 
 /* Define whether to compile on Windows */
 /* #undef WIN32 */

configure

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
-# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.72 for bibledit 5.1.032.
+# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.72 for bibledit 5.1.033.
 #
 # Report bugs to <https://bibledit.org>.
 #
@@ -603,8 +603,8 @@ MAKEFLAGS=
 # Identity of this package.
 PACKAGE_NAME='bibledit'
 PACKAGE_TARNAME='bibledit'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='5.1.032'
-PACKAGE_STRING='bibledit 5.1.032'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='5.1.033'
+PACKAGE_STRING='bibledit 5.1.033'
 PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='https://bibledit.org'
 PACKAGE_URL=''
 
@@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@ if test "$ac_init_help" = "long"; then
   # Omit some internal or obsolete options to make the list less imposing.
   # This message is too long to be a string in the A/UX 3.1 sh.
   cat <<_ACEOF
-'configure' configures bibledit 5.1.032 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+'configure' configures bibledit 5.1.033 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
 
 Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
 
@@ -1436,7 +1436,7 @@ fi
 
 if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then
   case $ac_init_help in
-     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of bibledit 5.1.032:";;
+     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of bibledit 5.1.033:";;
    esac
   cat <<\_ACEOF
 
@@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ fi
 test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit $ac_status
 if $ac_init_version; then
   cat <<\_ACEOF
-bibledit configure 5.1.032
+bibledit configure 5.1.033
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.72
 
 Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -1761,7 +1761,7 @@ cat >config.log <<_ACEOF
 This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
 running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
 
-It was created by bibledit $as_me 5.1.032, which was
+It was created by bibledit $as_me 5.1.033, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.72.  Invocation command line was
 
   $ $0$ac_configure_args_raw
@@ -3454,7 +3454,7 @@ fi
 
 # Define the identity of the package.
  PACKAGE='bibledit'
- VERSION='5.1.032'
+ VERSION='5.1.033'
 
 
 printf "%s\n" "#define PACKAGE \"$PACKAGE\"" >>confdefs.h
@@ -8389,7 +8389,7 @@ cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<\_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
 # report actual input values of CONFIG_FILES etc. instead of their
 # values after options handling.
 ac_log="
-This file was extended by bibledit $as_me 5.1.032, which was
+This file was extended by bibledit $as_me 5.1.033, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.72.  Invocation command line was
 
   CONFIG_FILES    = $CONFIG_FILES
@@ -8457,7 +8457,7 @@ ac_cs_config_escaped=`printf "%s\n" "$ac_cs_config" | sed "s/^ //; s/'/'\\\\\\\\
 cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
 ac_cs_config='$ac_cs_config_escaped'
 ac_cs_version="\\
-bibledit config.status 5.1.032
+bibledit config.status 5.1.033
 configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.72,
   with options \\"\$ac_cs_config\\"
 

configure.ac

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT([bibledit],[5.1.032],[https://bibledit.org])
+AC_INIT([bibledit],[5.1.033],[https://bibledit.org])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([tar-ustar subdir-objects])
 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD
 ac_default_prefix=/usr