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All good. Thanks for digging.

Apparently this has already been reported and fixed: https://gitlab.com/Teuniz/EDFbrowser/-/merge_requests/6

So we need to wait for the next release I guess. If you don't want to wait, you can modify your ~/.makepkg.conf and remove the offending flag (https://man.archlinux.org/man/makepkg.conf.5).

Maybe I changed my /etc/makepkg.conf at some point, because this flag seems to be a relatively new default (see e.g. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/blob/master/rfcs/0003-buildflags.rst#specification). If that's the case then this needs to be fixed upstream. Can you report it and link the issue here?

To be safe, I removed /etc/makepkg.conf and reinstalled pacman, same error.

Inside /etc/makepkg.conf, the CFLAGS is set as CFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions \ -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security \ -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection"

meaning pacman turned on -Werror=format-security by default. I tried locally - turning this off does remove the compilation error. Did you turn it off manually?

My gcc flags are identical. Maybe you changed something in /etc/makepkg.conf?

Interesting. I don't think I tweaked any gcc setups, at least not intentionally. here is my gcc -v dump,

Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/12.2.1/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: /build/gcc/src/gcc/configure --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++,d --enable-bootstrap --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=https://bugs.archlinux.org/ --with-build-config=bootstrap-lto --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-cet=auto --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-default-ssp --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-libstdcxx-backtrace --enable-link-serialization=1 --enable-linker-build-id --enable-lto --enable-multilib --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-werror Thread model: posix Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd gcc version 12.2.1 20230201 (GCC)

That's really strange. I have exactly the same versions as you. And yes, my system is also completely up to date.

Did you set any additional compiler options by any chance? It looks like you set -Werror=format-security, which is not enabled by default.

ok... thanks anyways.

I updated with pacman -Syu without errors, and I assume you did the same. I also installed the base-devel, which was recently converted to meta from group. How is it possible that we are different versions of any dependency libraries?

Anyways, my systems is on gcc/gcc-libs 12.2.1-2, and glibc 2.37-2.

Does anybody else have compilation errors?

Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce this issue. Compiling (and installing the package) works fine. Maybe check your system for outdated packages (such as gcc and glibc)? I'm sorry I cannot help more.

@cbrnr it's the compile stage. makepkg -s gives me that error.

filt/remez.c: In function ‘init_frequencies’:
filt/remez.c:174:27: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
  174 |       fprintf(stderr, spec->err_msg);
      |                       ~~~~^~~~~~~~~
filt/remez.c: In function ‘func_b’:
filt/remez.c:1024:25: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
 1024 |     fprintf(stderr, spec->err_msg);
      |                     ~~~~^~~~~~~~~
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make: *** [Makefile:18730: objects/remez.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...