Re: [gpsd-dev] Bernd's CheckFunc Fix

[Fred Wright]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2016, Fred Wright wrote:

> Now that I've moved the compiler warning setup in fde48f55, it's time to
> see whether that fixes the CheckFunc problem that motivated the creation
> of CheckFuncFor_Wstrict_prototypes().
>
> Bernd - I hope you're paying attention, since AFAIK you're the only one
> who can reproduce the problem.  Testing isn't *too* difficult, but since
> actually reverting your commit requires resoving a conflict, an easier
> approach is just to patch the one call on CheckFuncFor_Wstrict_prototypes
> to use the normal CheckFunc, as follows:

[...]

> Given that it can be seen from config.log that -Wstrict-prototypes is no
> longer present in the CheckFunc compiler invocations, if I don't hear
> anything soon I'll assume that the problem is fixed and revert your
> change.

Not having heard in a week, I tested and pushed this revert.

> Of course it would still be nice to know how a warning became an error.

That still remains the case. :-)

Fred Wright