Yes I eventually found out about the maintainer mode by searching for where -Werror is coming from, that's how I ended up using the tarball (because there is no maintainer mode there).
Didn't know about README.git though - this does have a lot of info indeed, thanks! On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 at 17:24, Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2023-03-21 at 12:52 +0000, Costas Argyris wrote: > > When trying from git, which was my first attempt, I was getting > > compilation warnings which were turning themselves into errors, > > so I never managed to build. > > > > When I used the sources extracted from the tarball though, this > > simply wasn't the case so I was able to cross-compile just fine. > > FYI when you build from Git, the "maintainer mode" is enabled by > default. This includes extra runtime checks which make "make" slower, > and it also includes extreme compiler warning options, and also adds > the -Werror to turn those into failures (when you're using autotools). > > You can disable this mode, even when compiling from Git, if you need > to. Instructions for building from Git should be available in the > README.git file (this is only part of a Git checkout, it's not > available in the release). > > However as Eli says it's usually not a big deal to apply patches from a > source release, to the Git repository ourselves. >
