On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 12:20 PM Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 07:24:10 -0600,
  Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@gmail.com> wrote:
>So I have several FTBFS bugs most likely from the new gcc being more
>pedantic. I understand the bug at a high level but I think it would be nice
>if someone who really understood it could perhaps document strategies for
>figuring out how to find the right file that needs to be updated and how.

The most common fix I used was, using "extern" in all but one place.

Well I guess what I was looking for was for us non-C/C++ programmers. :)

I can grep the source and arbitrarily choose which one not to use extern with, but is there a right way?

Thanks,
Richard