I reported a QA warning to upstream. The answer is below (and correct in my eyes - the QA issue is introduced by the Gentoo patch file). Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> wrote: > At a stable Gentoo I do get : > > > * Messages for package app-arch/star-1.5.3: > > * QA Notice: Package triggers severe warnings which indicate that it > * may exhibit random runtime failures. > * checkerr.c:212:5: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'free' > * checkerr.c:218:3: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'free' > * Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA > * issues directly to the upstream developers of this software. > * Homepage: http://s-tar.sourceforge.net/ >>>> Auto-cleaning packages... It seems that you are either not compiling star-1.5.3 or using a broken compiler. The whole files does not include the text "free" at all". In special, line 212: } while (p < ef && p && *p++ == '|'); and line 218: }
+ 27 Jul 2015; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> star-1.5.3.ebuild: + Drop unneeded patch as upstream author complaint about it +
