Thank you for this summary! On Oct 13, 2017 10:51, "Jim Jagielski" <j...@jagunet.com> wrote:
> Let's recall what is really happening... > > In maintainer mode, the build system sets -Werror and -Wstrict-prototypes. > This means that functions which lack strict prototypes will "fail". > > Now note that AC_CHECK_LIB does not worry about generating > function calls w/ prototypes, so, for example, when checking > for luaL_newstate, it will fail *even if the function exists*! > In fact, this is how I 1st observed the issue: mod_lua was > no longer being included. > > The long and short is that under maintainer mode, we cannot > expect AC_CHECK_LIB to being correct any longer, because > the combination of -Werror and -Wstrict-prototypes means > that any and all functions looked for/checked for using > AC_CHECK_LIB will NOT be found, due to warnings which are > now fatal errors during configure time, even if those > functions DO exist. > > PS: CCing dev@apr since APR also uses AC_CHECK_LIB >
