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Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation de
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Sam James |
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Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults? |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 05:03:08 +0000 |
> On 13 Nov 2022, at 00:43, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> On 2022-11-11 07:11, Aaron Ballman wrote:
>> We believe the runtime behavior is sufficiently dangerous to
>> warrant a conservative view that any call to a function will be a call
>> that gets executed at runtime, hence a definitive signature mismatch
>> is something we feel comfortable diagnosing (in some form) by default.
>
> As long as these diagnostics by default do not cause the compiler to exit
> with nonzero status, we should be OK with Autoconf-generated 'configure'
> scripts. Although there will be problems with people who run "./configure
> CFLAGS='-Werror'", that sort of usage has always been problematic and
> unsupported by Autoconf, so we can simply continue to tell people "don't do
> that".
>
Is there somewhere in the autoconf docs we actually say this?
I've seen a few instances of folks adding it themselves very
early in their configure scripts (which is a pain for distros
anyway) which then ends up affecting the rest.
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- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, (continued)
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Zack Weinberg, 2022/11/16
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/17
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Bruno Haible, 2022/11/17
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/17
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Michael Matz, 2022/11/17
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Aaron Ballman, 2022/11/15
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?,
Sam James <=
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Zack Weinberg, 2022/11/15
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Sam James, 2022/11/15
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2022/11/15
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/12
- Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Jason Merrill, 2022/11/17
Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Rich Felker, 2022/11/10
Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?, Paul Eggert, 2022/11/10