I was testing the new Debian "buster" image by @RobertCNelson and we noticed that the Adafruit_BBIO build was failing on compiler warnings. This seems to be due to the introduction of new compiler warnings in the more recent version of gcc that is on the buster image: https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2019-03-03/buster-iot/bone-debian-buster-iot-armhf-2019-03-03-4gb.img.xz a shot NOTE: commit https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-beaglebone-io-python/commit/0923b85884fd1a021a3ea92b3e30ab5a654e121b caused a regression in older versions of gcc. See issue #307 TODO: determine how to avoid compile failure in gcc 8.2.0 without causing a regression for gcc 6.3.0 in the current Debian 9.x "Stretch" images