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Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation de
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Sam James |
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Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults? |
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Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:34:20 +0000 |
> On 15 Nov 2022, at 13:30, Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2022, at 12:03 AM, Sam James wrote:
>>> On 13 Nov 2022, at 00:43, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Although there will be problems with people who run "./configure
>>> CFLAGS='-Werror'", that sort of usage has always been problematic and
>>> unsupported by Autoconf, so we can simply continue to tell people "don't do
>>> that".
>>>
>>
>> Is there somewhere in the autoconf docs we actually say this?
>>
>> I've seen a few instances of folks adding it themselves very
>> early in their configure scripts (which is a pain for distros
>> anyway) which then ends up affecting the rest.
>
> It's mentioned in the NEWS entry for 2.70:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/tree/NEWS#n170
Thanks, sorry, I didn't think to check NEWS. This is good enough for me to link
folks to, anyway, for the time being.
> Note that there have been bug reports for cases where running builds with
> more warnings than configure uses (and I think also -Werror), means that
> configure checks spuriously succeed (i.e. configure reports that something is
> available, but then you get compiler errors on the code that tries to use
> it). I can't remember any concrete examples right now, though.
I can totally imagine that, don't stress about the examples.
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- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, (continued)
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Zack Weinberg, 2022/11/16
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/17
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Bruno Haible, 2022/11/17
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/17
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Michael Matz, 2022/11/17
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Aaron Ballman, 2022/11/15
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Sam James, 2022/11/15
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Zack Weinberg, 2022/11/15
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?,
Sam James <=
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2022/11/15
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/12
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Jason Merrill, 2022/11/17
Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Rich Felker, 2022/11/10
Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/10
Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Michael Orlitzky, 2022/11/10