[libvirt] gnulib compiler warning detection broken on RHEL5 autoconf
I was wondering why I didn't see any compile warnings from the broken
gnutls code on RHEL5 when I noticed that we were building without any
compiler warning flags at all.
It seems configure fails on RHEL5 vintage autoconf
checking whether compiler handles -Wall... ./configure: line 75468:
${$as_gl_Warn+set}: bad substitution
I'm guessing it is the gl_WARN_ADD() macro that is at fault somehow.
Daniel
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Re: [libvirt] gnulib compiler warning detection broken on RHEL5 autoconf
On 07/26/2011 04:45 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
I was wondering why I didn't see any compile warnings from the broken
gnutls code on RHEL5 when I noticed that we were building without any
compiler warning flags at all.
It seems configure fails on RHEL5 vintage autoconf
checking whether compiler handles -Wall... ./configure: line 75468:
${$as_gl_Warn+set}: bad substitution
Yuck. I'll take a look (it may be that older autoconf has a bug, and I
merely need to backport a workaround for that bug fix).
I'm guessing it is the gl_WARN_ADD() macro that is at fault somehow.
Very possible, in fact, it may be a case of gl_WARN_ADD using an
autoconf macro and assuming newer semantics, where a bit more work is
needed to guarantee support with autoconf 2.59.
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Re: [libvirt] gnulib compiler warning detection broken on RHEL5 autoconf
On 07/26/2011 10:05 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 07/26/2011 04:45 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
I was wondering why I didn't see any compile warnings from the broken
gnutls code on RHEL5 when I noticed that we were building without any
compiler warning flags at all.
It seems configure fails on RHEL5 vintage autoconf
checking whether compiler handles -Wall... ./configure: line 75468:
${$as_gl_Warn+set}: bad substitution
Yuck. I'll take a look (it may be that older autoconf has a bug, and I
merely need to backport a workaround for that bug fix).
I'm guessing it is the gl_WARN_ADD() macro that is at fault somehow.
Very possible, in fact, it may be a case of gl_WARN_ADD using an
autoconf macro and assuming newer semantics, where a bit more work is
needed to guarantee support with autoconf 2.59.
Yep. Bug is in gnulib.
When using AS_VAR_PUSHDEF, autoconf 2.59 requires that all subsequent
uses of that placeholder be used _unquoted_ until the AS_VAR_POPDEF.
Newer autoconf fixed things to work with the typical autoconf quoting
rules, but gnulib wants to work with autoconf 2.59, so it must use the
older syntax. I'll be pushing a gnulib fix shortly.
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