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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 63a11fe..cf80210 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -150,8 +150,11 @@ produce a few warnings.
Warnings about "implicit declaration" of system functions may occur if
your system's include files are deficient---they are usually harmless.
-There is a warning about "variable `n' might be clobbered" in walk.c.
-I'm not sure how serious this warning is, nor how to eliminate it.
+Some older versions of gcc warn about "variable `n' might be
+clobbered" in walk.c. As far as I can tell, this is gcc telling you
+that it might not be compiling the code correctly! I don't know how
+to eliminate the warning, but it doesn't appear to cause any problems
+in practice.
On some systems there are warnings about "passing arg 2 of `getgroups'
from incompatible pointer type" in which.c. I believe this is due to an