On 8/5/20 7:28 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Then "configure" should provide a way to use -Werror
I added that to the Autoconf TODO list; see attached. Unfortunately it's not something that would be trivial to do. In the meantime, I suggest not passing -Werror to 'configure'. (Or for this particular example, you can wait until C2x is supported. :-)
>From ef399ebb88d65eb674c9e9748ad223997d1e1ce2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 12:28:24 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] * TODO: Add -Werror support. --- TODO | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 37b2e946..62619219 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ Harlan: ** Languages Integrate other Fortrans etc. +** Picky compilers, e.g., gcc -Werror +Many Autoconf-generated tests do the wrong thing if someone configures +with CC='gcc -Werror' or with similar options. It would be nice if +these tests worked better with picky compilers. This will require +significant reworking in some cases, e.g., AC_CHECK_FUNCS will need +to know the headers declaring the functions. + ** AC_CHECK_FUNCS and AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC I have still not understood what's the difference between the two which requires to have two different sources: AC_LANG_CALL and -- 2.17.1
