On 2014-02-23, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > Hi, > > d...@genunix.com wrote on Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 08:54:34AM -0500: > >> I am seeing strange and questionable messages while attempting a compile >> and then test of GNU gettext 0.18.3.2 thus : >> >> ../gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so: warning: stpcpy() is dangerous GNU >> crap; >> don't use it >> ../gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so: warning: strcpy() is almost always >> misused, please use strlcpy() >> ../gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so: warning: strcat() is almost always >> misused, please use strlcat() >> ../gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so: warning: sprintf() is often misused, >> please use snprintf() >> >> Are these messages coming from within the OpenBSD world ? > > Yes. They come from ld(1), the OpenBSD linker, and cannot be disabled.
They can, by removing -DAPIWARN from Makefile.inc. I wish the stpcpy warning was worded a bit more like the others.. > Note that it is theoretically possible to use these functions > correctly; Just as it's possible to use strl* functions incorrectly. Hi postgresql, you're supposed to check the return value ;-)
