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author | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2023-09-26 13:14:37 +0300 |
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committer | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2023-09-26 13:50:19 +0300 |
commit | 9f1444a8a5c0e724b2c7ef83424f642f07a95982 (patch) | |
tree | 4d5186fafe73df14a419b27f67ae9856dc5ec3ad /INSTALL.generic | |
parent | CMake: Remove accidental extra newline. (diff) | |
download | xz-9f1444a8a5c0e724b2c7ef83424f642f07a95982.tar.xz |
Build: Silence two Autoconf warnings.
There were two uses of AC_COMPILE_IFELSE that didn't use
AC_LANG_SOURCE and Autoconf warned about these. The omission
had been intentional but it turned out that this didn't do
what I thought it would.
Autoconf 2.71 manual gives an impression that AC_LANG_SOURCE
inserts all #defines that have been made with AC_DEFINE so
far (confdefs.h). The idea was that omitting AC_LANG_SOURCE
would mean that only the exact code included in the
AC_COMPILE_IFELSE call would be compiled.
With C programs this is not true: the #defines get added without
AC_LANG_SOURCE too. There seems to be no neat way to avoid this.
Thus, with the C language at least, adding AC_LANG_SOURCE makes
no other difference than silencing a warning from Autoconf. The
generated "configure" remains identical. (Docs of AC_LANG_CONFTEST
say that the #defines have been inserted since Autoconf 2.63b and
that AC_COMPILE_IFELSE uses AC_LANG_CONFTEST. So the behavior is
documented if one also reads the docs of macros that one isn't
calling directly.)
Any extra code, including #defines, can cause problems for
these two tests because these tests must use -Werror.
CC=clang CFLAGS=-Weverything is the most extreme example.
It enables -Wreserved-macro-identifier which warns about
#define __EXTENSIONS__ 1 because it begins with two underscores.
It's possible to write a test file that passes -Weverything but
it becomes impossible when Autoconf inserts confdefs.h.
So this commit adds AC_LANG_SOURCE to silence Autoconf warnings.
A different solution is needed for -Werror tests.
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