Re: AC_FLAGS_WARN_ALL changes proposed for inclusion in next autoconf release

2014-09-05 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for getting the ball rolling on this. A couple of thoughts. First, how does this compare to the warnings and manywarnings modules of Gnulib? They seem to do something similar. See: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/warnings.html http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/m

Re: AC_FLAGS_WARN_ALL changes proposed for inclusion in next autoconf release

2014-09-05 Thread David A. Wheeler
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 13:12:11 -0400, "Visser, Dale" wrote: > Autoconf developers: > The basic idea is to overall enhance the security of code built using > autoconf, by turning on compiler warnings that the developers wouldn't > otherwise think to. I think this is *awesome*. I would really

AC_FLAGS_WARN_ALL changes proposed for inclusion in next autoconf release

2014-09-05 Thread Visser, Dale
Autoconf developers: I originally posted the attached proposed changes back in January, and there was some discussion of them then*. I did not push very hard about getting the changes accepted then, because I was waiting on my employer's legal department to sign off on the FSF copyright assignm