Hi Eric, distcheck fails for me with current branch-1.4 on GNU/Linux/x86_64, gcc-4.2.4:
gcc -std=gnu99 -I../../lib -I../lib -Wall -W -Wformat-y2k -Wformat-security -Winit-self -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wswitch-default -Wunused -Wunknown-pragmas -Wstrict-aliasing -Wstrict-overflow -Wfloat-equal -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wshadow -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wc++-compat -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wpacked -Wnested-externs -Winline -Winvalid-pch -Wvolatile-register-var -Wdisabled-optimization -Wstack-protector -Woverlength-strings -Wattributes -Wmultichar -Wunused-macros -fdiagnostics-show-option -funit-at-a-time -Werror -g -O2 -MT input.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/input.Tpo -c -o input.o ../../src/input.c cc1: warnings being treated as errors ../../src/input.c: In function 'set_word_regexp': ../../src/input.c:764: warning: not protecting function: no buffer at least 8 bytes long make[2]: *** [input.o] Error 1 Cheers, Ralf