"Argument unused caused failure" build failure(s) — clang 4.0.1

Unknown or unused arguments triggers errors with -Werror:
clang -Werror -ggdb3 foo.c
PackageVersionSupposed error messageFull log Bug report
librdkafka 0.9.5-2DBG: compile check for PIC (HAVE_PIC) failed: gcc -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/<>=. -specs=/usr/share/dpkg/no-pie-compile.specs -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/include -g -O2 -Wall -Werror -fPIC _mkltmpOPwspw.c -o _mkltmpOPwspw.c.o -specs=/usr/share/dpkg/no-pie-link.specs -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu: clang: error: argument unused during compilation: '-specs=/usr/share/dpkg/no-pie-compile.specs' [-Werror,-Wunused-command-line-argument] Log
python-pyxattr 0.6.0-2clang: error: argument unused during compilation: '-specs=/usr/share/dpkg/no-pie-compile.specs' [-Werror,-Wunused-command-line-argument] Log
xen 4.8.1-1+deb9u1clang: error: argument unused during compilation: '-Wa,--strip-local-absolute' [-Werror,-Wunused-command-line-argument] Log

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