Re: [Bug-wget] [Patch] Use -isystem in Makefile to suppress warnings from libraries

[Tim Rühsen]

Do get less lines when using a less verbose make:

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 09b81e6..d7bba63 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([OS_TYPE], "$host_os",
                    [Define to be the name of the operating system.])
 
+dnl Non-verbose make
+m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
 
 dnl
 dnl Process External Libraries


Tim

Am Freitag, 29. Januar 2016, 15:52:45 schrieb Darshit Shah:
> For example, variable length arrays and the "inline" keyword are both
> flagged by the compiler as an extension and gnulib and gettext bit use
> them heavily. Without this patch, my builds on travis are failing
> because the output logs are > 4MB.
> 
> At the risk of starting another fight, can we move to C99 as the
> standard? The only major compiler I know of that doesn't support it is
> MSVC. But do we really need to stay so much behind times to support
> MSVC? Windows users can use CygWin / MingW to compile Wget. Half of
> gnulib, gettext or other libraries will probably not compile properly
> using MSVC anyways. Microsoft is not keen on improving their support
> for C runtimes.
> 
> Is there anything else that I'm missing?
> 
> On 29 January 2016 at 15:45, Darshit Shah <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Most of them are actually false positives, probably due to us. Gnulib
> > uses some more modern code extensions and the compiler keeps warning
> > us about it since we set the C language to std=gnu89. I'm not happy
> > about this fact, but this discussion has happened multiple times and I
> > don't think we will be moving to a more modern setup anytime soon. I
> > would personally prefer using *at least* C99, a more recent version
> > like C11 would be even better, but not all compiler would support
> > that.
> > 
> > On 29 January 2016 at 15:40, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>> From: Darshit Shah <address@hidden>
> >>> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 15:18:57 +0100
> >>> 
> >>> A recent GCC / LLVM update has caused my setup to spew far too many
> >>> warnings on compiling Wget. On a closer look, they all come from
> >>> Gnulib code. I propose the attached patch to explicitly mark those
> >>> files as libraries and have the compiler suppress warnings from them.
> >>> This way we can focus on the warnings generated by Wget codebase
> >>> alone.
> >> 
> >> If we do this, who will tell Gnulib people to get their act together
> >> and fix those warnings?  I think the right solution to this is in
> >> Gnulib, not in Wget.
> >> 
> >> Thanks.
> > 
> > --
> > Thanking You,
> > Darshit Shah

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