grub_script.yy.c:2296:17: error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions

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Hello,

I am compiling grub-2.00 on Slackware 14.1:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
[...]
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/grub-2.00'
Making all in grub-core/gnulib
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/grub-2.00/grub-core/gnulib'
rm -f configmake.h-t && \
{ echo '/* DO NOT EDIT! GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY! */'; \
  echo '#define PREFIX "/usr"'; \
  echo '#define EXEC_PREFIX "/usr"'; \
  echo '#define BINDIR "/usr/bin"'; \
  echo '#define SBINDIR "/usr/sbin"'; \
  echo '#define LIBEXECDIR "/usr/libexec"'; \
  echo '#define DATAROOTDIR "/usr/share"'; \
  echo '#define DATADIR "/usr/share"'; \
  echo '#define SYSCONFDIR "/usr/etc"'; \
  echo '#define SHAREDSTATEDIR "/usr/com"'; \
  echo '#define LOCALSTATEDIR "/usr/var"'; \
  echo '#define INCLUDEDIR "/usr/include"'; \
  echo '#define OLDINCLUDEDIR "/usr/include"'; \
  echo '#define DOCDIR "/usr/share/doc/grub"'; \
  echo '#define INFODIR "/usr/share/info"'; \
  echo '#define HTMLDIR "/usr/share/doc/grub"'; \
  echo '#define DVIDIR "/usr/share/doc/grub"'; \
  echo '#define PDFDIR "/usr/share/doc/grub"'; \
  echo '#define PSDIR "/usr/share/doc/grub"'; \
  echo '#define LIBDIR "/usr/lib"'; \
  echo '#define LISPDIR ""'; \
  echo '#define LOCALEDIR "/usr/share/locale"'; \
  echo '#define MANDIR "/usr/share/man"'; \
  echo '#define MANEXT ""'; \
  echo '#define PKGDATADIR "/usr/share/grub"'; \
  echo '#define PKGINCLUDEDIR "/usr/include/grub"'; \
  echo '#define PKGLIBDIR "/usr/lib/grub"'; \
  echo '#define PKGLIBEXECDIR "/usr/libexec/grub"'; \
} | sed '/""/d' > configmake.h-t && \
if test -f configmake.h && cmp configmake.h-t configmake.h > /dev/null; then \
  rm -f configmake.h-t; \
else \
  rm -f configmake.h; mv configmake.h-t configmake.h; \
fi
make  all-recursive
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/grub-2.00/grub-core/gnulib'
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/grub-2.00/grub-core/gnulib'
rm -f configmake.h-t && \
{ echo '/* DO NOT EDIT! GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY! */'; \
  echo '#define PREFIX "/usr"'; \
  echo '#define EXEC_PREFIX "/usr"'; \
  echo '#define BINDIR "/usr/bin"'; \
  echo '#define SBINDIR "/usr/sbin"'; \
  echo '#define LIBEXECDIR "/usr/libexec"'; \
  echo '#define DATAROOTDIR "/usr/share"'; \
  echo '#define DATADIR "/usr/share"'; \
  echo '#define SYSCONFDIR "/usr/etc"'; \
  echo '#define SHAREDSTATEDIR "/usr/com"'; \
  echo '#define LOCALSTATEDIR "/usr/var"'; \
  echo '#define INCLUDEDIR "/usr/include"'; \
  echo '#define OLDINCLUDEDIR "/usr/include"'; \
  echo '#define DOCDIR "/usr/share/doc/grub"'; \
  echo '#define INFODIR "/usr/share/info"'; \
  echo '#define HTMLDIR "/usr/share/doc/grub"'; \
  echo '#define DVIDIR "/usr/share/doc/grub"'; \
  echo '#define PDFDIR "/usr/share/doc/grub"'; \
  echo '#define PSDIR "/usr/share/doc/grub"'; \
  echo '#define LIBDIR "/usr/lib"'; \
  echo '#define LISPDIR ""'; \
  echo '#define LOCALEDIR "/usr/share/locale"'; \
  echo '#define MANDIR "/usr/share/man"'; \
  echo '#define MANEXT ""'; \
  echo '#define PKGDATADIR "/usr/share/grub"'; \
  echo '#define PKGINCLUDEDIR "/usr/include/grub"'; \
  echo '#define PKGLIBDIR "/usr/lib/grub"'; \
  echo '#define PKGLIBEXECDIR "/usr/libexec/grub"'; \
} | sed '/""/d' > configmake.h-t && \
if test -f configmake.h && cmp configmake.h-t configmake.h > /dev/null; then \
  rm -f configmake.h-t; \
else \
  rm -f configmake.h; mv configmake.h-t configmake.h; \
fi
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/grub-2.00/grub-core/gnulib'
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/grub-2.00/grub-core/gnulib'
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/grub-2.00/grub-core/gnulib'
Making all in .
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/grub-2.00'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.   -Wall -W -I./include -DGRUB_UTIL=1 
-DGRUB_LIBDIR=\"/usr/lib/grub\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" 
-DGRUB_FILE=\"grub_script.yy.c\" -I. -I. -I. -I. -I./include -I./include  
-I./grub-core/lib/minilzo -I./grub-core/lib/xzembed -DMINILZO_HAVE_CONFIG_H     
           -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Wundef 
-Wextra -Waddress -Wattributes -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wcomment 
-Wdeprecated-declarations -Wdisabled-optimization -Wdiv-by-zero -Wempty-body 
-Wendif-labels -Wfloat-equal -Wformat-extra-args -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k 
-Wimplicit -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wimplicit-int -Winit-self 
-Wint-to-pointer-cast -Winvalid-pch -Wmain -Wmissing-braces 
-Wmissing-field-initializers -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wmissing-noreturn 
-Wmultichar -Wnonnull -Woverflow -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith 
-Wpointer-to-int-cast -Wreturn-type -Wsequence-point -Wshadow -Wsign-compare 
-Wstrict-aliasing -Wswitch -Wtrigraphs -Wundef -Wunknown-pragmas -W
 unused -Wunused-function -Wunused-label -Wunused-parameter -Wunused-value  
-Wunused-variable -Wvariadic-macros -Wvolatile-register-var -Wwrite-strings 
-Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpointer-sign -Werror  -fno-builtin 
-Wno-undef -Wno-error=missing-noreturn               -MT 
libgrubmods_a-grub_script.yy.o -MD -MP -MF 
.deps-util/libgrubmods_a-grub_script.yy.Tpo -c -o 
libgrubmods_a-grub_script.yy.o `test -f 'grub_script.yy.c' || echo 
'./'`grub_script.yy.c
grub_script.yy.c: In function 'yy_scan_bytes':
grub_script.yy.c:2296:17: error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer 
expressions [-Werror=sign-compare]
  for ( i = 0; i < _yybytes_len; ++i )
                 ^
./grub-core/script/yylex.l: At top level:
grub_script.yy.c:2351:13: error: 'yy_fatal_error' defined but not used 
[-Werror=unused-function]
 static void yy_fatal_error (yyconst char* msg , yyscan_t yyscanner)
             ^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [libgrubmods_a-grub_script.yy.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/grub-2.00'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/yugiohjcj/documents/downloads/software/grub-2.00'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Do you have a patch for this?

Thank you.
Best regards.