--- old/make/linux/makefiles/zeroshark.make	2015-11-16 17:03:21.684223400 -0500
+++ new/make/linux/makefiles/zeroshark.make	2015-11-16 17:03:21.559947937 -0500
@@ -25,8 +25,16 @@
 
 # Setup common to Zero (non-Shark) and Shark versions of VM
 
-# override this from the main file because some version of llvm do not like -Wundef
-WARNING_FLAGS = -Wpointer-arith -Wsign-compare -Wunused-function -Wunused-value
+# Some versions of llvm do not like -Wundef
+ifeq ($(USE_CLANG), true)
+  WARNING_FLAGS += -Wno-undef
+endif
+# Suppress some warning flags that are normally turned on for hotspot,
+# because some of the zero code has not been updated accordingly.
+WARNING_FLAGS += -Wno-return-type \
+  -Wno-format-nonliteral -Wno-format-security \
+  -Wno-maybe-uninitialized
+ 
 
 # The copied fdlibm routines in sharedRuntimeTrig.o must not be optimized
 OPT_CFLAGS/sharedRuntimeTrig.o = $(OPT_CFLAGS/NOOPT)