Hi,
when I updated one of my Ubuntu machine's packages, it automatically updated libc6 to a newer version.
I was in for a surprise: the output is littered with spurious warnings about lack of handling of return values to all kinds of functions.
It took me a while to figure out what had happened, and it took me even longer to find this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/305176
Apparently, the good Ubuntu people think it is fine that people who compile stuff themselves are drowned in warnings.
To make a long story less long: I have this in my config.mak for now:
CFLAGS += -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
Hopefully, this helps others, too.
Ciao, Dscho