Enabling "-Werror=format-security" by default

[David Smith]

On 11/20/2013 10:51 AM, Dhiru Kholia wrote:
> On 11/20/13 at 09:27pm, Dhiru Kholia wrote:
>> We are working on a proposal to enable "-Werror=format-security"
>> compilation flag for all packages in Fedora.
>>
>> Currently, around 400 packages FTBFS if this flag is enabled.
> 
> A list of packages which FTBFS is available at,
> 
> http://people.fedoraproject.org/~halfie/rebuild-logs.txt

Looking at the list, I see several (~17) packages with errors of the form:

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error: -Wformat-security ignored without -Wformat [-Werror=format-security]
====

Which is an error, but not exactly what you are trying to catch. Got any
ideas on what is going on here?

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