Re: printf fails in version 5.2.026-3

[Sam James]

Daniel Lublin <daniel@lublin.se> writes:

> Apparently the patch needed to fix this was the one Florian Weimer
> posted in november 2023, in "C compatibility issue in the configure
> script" <8734oqnlou.fsf@gentoo.org> (if you don't have the mail history:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2023-11/msg00104.html)
>
> Maybe some compiler change triggered this now.

Yes, GCC 14 makes various things stricter - for the better - and this
can affect configure scripts.

Arch didn't, as far as I know, do a mass-rebuild when adding GCC 14,
which means these issues now only show up when a package gets updated
for unrelated reasons. I consider this to not have been the ideal
strategy. We did try to advertise what people should do, but you can
only shout so much.