How to supress known warnings when building Nginx on Linux?

Question

I am a linux amateur and am trying to build nginx on Debian (Lenny) for the first time.

Attemps to build nginx are failing and I receive the known warnings on sys_errorlist and sys_nerr as documented here: http://nginx.org/en/docs/sys_errlist.html

The documentation suggests this is a warning that I can ignore. My question is what flag(s) do I need to include with make to tell it to ignore those warnings?

I have been pouring through the flag options with no real leads and searches only go as far as telling me that I can ignore the warnings. It may be an obvious answer, perhaps why I can't find anything posted, so I'm asking those who are smarter than I. Thanks...

Answer 1

They mean ignore as in you the human ignoring them, not as in telling the compiler to ignore them. It shouldn't cause the compilation to fail unless you specify -Werror.