diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 27b796c..6ace45c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ AC_C_CONST
 AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 
+dnl Overwrite default archiver flags.
+AC_SUBST(AR_FLAGS, [cr])
+
 dnl Check for header files that do not exist on all platforms
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([libutil.h pthread.h pty.h strings.h sys/prctl.h sys/uio.h  \
                   util.h utmp.h utmpx.h])
diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
deleted file mode 100644
index d7d49e5..0000000
--- a/debian/watch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-version=3
-https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox/tags .*/v?(\d\S*)\.tar\.gz
diff --git a/shellinabox/launcher.c b/shellinabox/launcher.c
index 5348b6c..066c8fb 100644
--- a/shellinabox/launcher.c
+++ b/shellinabox/launcher.c
@@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ typedef struct pam_handle pam_handle_t;
 #define UNUSED(x)    do { (void)(x); } while (0)
 #endif
 
+#define UNUSED_RETURN(x) do { (void)((x)+1); } while (0)
+
 #undef pthread_once
 #undef execle
 int execle(const char *, const char *, ...);
@@ -668,8 +670,8 @@ void destroyUtmp(struct Utmp *utmp) {
       uid_t r_gid, e_gid, s_gid;
       check(!getresuid(&r_uid, &e_uid, &s_uid));
       check(!getresgid(&r_gid, &e_gid, &s_gid));
-      setresuid(0, 0, 0);
-      setresgid(0, 0, 0);
+      UNUSED_RETURN(setresuid(0, 0, 0));
+      UNUSED_RETURN(setresgid(0, 0, 0));
 
       setutxent();
       pututxline(&utmp->utmpx);
@@ -1543,9 +1545,10 @@ static void childProcess(struct Service *service, int width, int height,
   cfsetospeed(&tt, B38400);
   tcsetattr(0, TCSAFLUSH, &tt);
 
-  // Assert root privileges in order to update utmp entry.
-  setresuid(0, 0, 0);
-  setresgid(0, 0, 0);
+  // Assert root privileges in order to update utmp entry. We can only do that,
+  // if we have root permissions otherwise this fails.
+  UNUSED_RETURN(setresuid(0, 0, 0));
+  UNUSED_RETURN(setresgid(0, 0, 0));
 #ifdef HAVE_UTMPX_H
   setutxent();
   struct utmpx utmpx            = utmp->utmpx;
diff --git a/shellinabox/privileges.c b/shellinabox/privileges.c
index ae1e20b..e7baf6e 100644
--- a/shellinabox/privileges.c
+++ b/shellinabox/privileges.c
@@ -59,10 +59,11 @@
 #include "shellinabox/privileges.h"
 #include "logging/logging.h"
 
+#define UNUSED_RETURN(x) do { (void)((x)+1); } while (0)
+
 int   runAsUser  = -1;
 int   runAsGroup = -1;
 
-
 #ifndef HAVE_GETRESUID
 int getresuid(uid_t *ruid, uid_t *euid, uid_t *suid) {
   *ruid = getuid();
@@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ void lowerPrivileges(void) {
 
   // Temporarily lower user privileges. If we used to have "root" privileges,
   // we can later still regain them.
-  setresuid(-1, -1, 0);
+  UNUSED_RETURN(setresuid(-1, -1, 0));
 
   if (runAsUser >= 0) {
     // Try to switch to the user-provided user id.