src/product/README.building.source 1.17

1.17 2009/10/30 21:38:14 hiram
Take care of gif_out_line error out warning situation with newer gcc versions
Index: src/product/README.building.source
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RCS file: /projects/compbio/cvsroot/kent/src/product/README.building.source,v
retrieving revision 1.16
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -b -B -U 4 -r1.16 -r1.17
--- src/product/README.building.source	5 Aug 2009 19:40:15 -0000	1.16
+++ src/product/README.building.source	30 Oct 2009 21:38:14 -0000	1.17
@@ -152,6 +152,15 @@
     This causes the OSTYPE variable to be recognized during the
     make and the conditional statements in src/inc/common.mk will
     include the -Wno-unused-variable option in the build.
 
+5.  The build fails with an error:
+    gifdecomp.c:274: error: call to function 'gif_out_line' without
+	a real prototype
+
+    This happens with newer versions of the gcc compiler.  To avoid the
+    build stopping at this point, eliminate the -Werror argument from the
+    src/inc/common.mk file.  We will fix this error as soon as we
+    get our hands on a newer version of the gcc compiler.
+
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