Bug#442950: g++-4.2: -Wwrite-strings getting turned on for no aparent reason
Package: g++-4.2
Version: 4.2.1-4
Severity: minor
Hi. Sometime in the last month or so, g++ has started spitting out at me a
bunch of "warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’"
messages. This apparently comes from -Wwrite-strings. However, according to the
man/info pages, this option shouldn't be turned on unless explicitly requrested
(not even -Wall turns it on). My makefile certainly certainly isn't turning it
on, and I don't get this message when compiling in Fedora or OS/X. I've looked
the the changelog.Debian and haven't seen anything to explain this. I can turn
it off with a CXXFLAGS=-Wno-write-strings, but it's a pain to remeber this each
time so I'd really appreciate it if you could fix this. :)
Thanks,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (110, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21cavy1
Locale: LANG=he_IL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages g++-4.2 depends on:
ii gcc-4.2 4.2.1-4 The GNU C compiler
ii gcc-4.2-base 4.2.1-4 The GNU Compiler Collection (base
ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libstdc++6-4.2-dev 4.2.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (d
g++-4.2 recommends no packages.
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