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Re: Warning category skew between Autoconf and Automake - workaround in
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Zack Weinberg |
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Re: Warning category skew between Autoconf and Automake - workaround in autoreconf? |
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Sat, 12 Sep 2020 11:08:59 -0400 |
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 3:39 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 9/10/20 11:48 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > I’m wondering whether it would make
> > sense to merge this distributor’s patch to avoid supplying -Wcross to
> > automake -- perhaps generalized to arbitrary warning categories. What
> > do you think?
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> Yes, we can't assume that both packages are of the same vintage or have the
> same
> warnings.
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> The Autoconf Way would be to probe Automake to see what warnings it supports.
> :-)
Good point. I have a plan to make this happen -- stay tuned.
zw