Re: AC_CHECK_FUNCS and -Werror

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 6/17/20 1:00 PM, Peter Häring wrote:
> But if you have as CFLAG -Werror, for example if you use start the
> configure process with
> 	CFLAGS+=-Werror ./configure
> then warning abuot the different types will cause the test to fail
> despite the function is available.
> 
> Possible solutions:
> * Provide the possibility to specify the type of the function
> * Provide the possibility to specify the header, where the function is
> defined, when it is available.

Yes, if we had time to engineer that it could well be better. In the meantime
the solution is to not use -Werror or similar flags when configuring.
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