Error in compile: "format not a string literal and no format arguments"

[Jim Harris]

Sorry if this has  been raised before:

(or if this is not the correct place to post this)

 

Attempting to compile Yaboot 1.3.17  (as unpacked from the tar-ball) on a iBook G3 – 700 mHz, 640 meg memory - running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (PPC), I receive the following error:

 

root at iBoot-G3:/home/jim/Desktop/Yaboot sources/yaboot-1.3.17# make install

gcc -Os -m32  -nostdinc -Wall -isystem `gcc -m32 -print-file-name=include` -fsigned-char -DVERSION="\"1.3.17\"" -DTEXTADDR=0x100000 -DDEBUG=0 -DMALLOCADDR= -DMALLOCSIZE=0x100000 -DKERNELADDR=0x00000000 -Werror -fdiagnostics-show-option -I ./include -fno-strict-aliasing -DCONFIG_COLOR_TEXT -DCONFIG_SET_COLORMAP -DUSE_MD5_PASSWORDS -DCONFIG_FS_XFS -DCONFIG_FS_REISERFS -c -o second/cmdline.o second/cmdline.c

cc1: warnings being treated as errors

second/cmdline.c: In function ‘cmdedit’:

second/cmdline.c:78: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Wformat-security]

make: *** [second/cmdline.o] Error 1

root at iBoot-G3:/home/jim/Desktop/Yaboot sources/yaboot-1.3.17#

 

The compile was done by unpacking the tar-gz, navigating to that folder, and running “make install” as root.

 

The “make” readme file mentions that “ybin needs hfsutils version 3.2.6 or later.” which I verified.

 

I tried to compile the 1.3.13 version, (which is the “native” version shipped with the PPC distribution of Ubuntu 10.04), and I received a whole host of warnings, and a different error:

 

lib/strstr.c:79: error: label at end of compound statement

 

This compile was also done directly within the 1.3.13 folder by running “make install”.

 

I strongly suspect that there are other things that need to be done first, but are not documented (or if they are, I did not see/understand them).

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

 

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