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Re: configure and -Werror=unused-variable do not mix well.
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Eric Blake |
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Re: configure and -Werror=unused-variable do not mix well. |
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Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:00:46 -0600 |
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On 01/27/2017 05:31 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> In configure script generated by autoconf 2.13 for mozilla software
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> # Generated automatically using autoconf version 2.13
> # Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Wow that's old. Can you convince the project to upgrade their
configure.in file to use autoconf 2.69 instead?
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> I found a few tests that failed if -Werror=unsed-variable is defined for
> CFLAGS (an environment variable).
Generally, ANY use of -Werror during configure is going to cause
problems. Our general advice is "don't do that". If you want to test if
a particular warning flag is supported, do so (and in fact, there's
patches posted that I still want to incorporate into autoconf 2.70 that
make warning flag probing easier) - but only for the duration of that
test. Don't actually change CFLAGS for the rest of the configure suite.
GNU Coreutils is a good example of how to probe for -Werror and even
use it via a separate Makefile.am variable, without having it on to mess
with the rest of the configure probes.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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