massive increase of the size of the library

[Joseph Myers]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2020, Paul Zimmermann wrote:

> thanks Florian. Indeed I had to compile 2.28 with CFLAGS="-O2 -Wno-error"
> since with -Werror it does not compile with gcc 9.3.0. If I add -g then

The way to disable -Werror is the --disable-werror configure option.  
(There's also the option of identifying the commits that fixed the build 
with newer GCC and cherry-picking them to the older release branch.)

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