Excellent! I think this should go in.

On April 14, 2014 11:55:25 AM EDT, Dale Visser <[email protected]> wrote:
>I've attached a new diff that fixes that error in the code comments. 😊
> 
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Turn on compiler warnings by default for AC_PROG_CC,    
>AC_PROG_CXX    & AC_PROG_FC
>> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:23:33 -0400
>> CC: [email protected]; [email protected]
>> 
>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:33:01 -0400, Dale Visser
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> > You found a mistake in the code comments that were brought over
>with
>> > this code from Autoconf Archive.
>> 
>> Okay, hope you'll fix that!
>> 
>> > To answer your specific question about GCC, only '-Wall' gets
>> > used to compile.
>> 
>> Good, that makes way more sense.
>> 
>> I like to also use "-Wextra" when using gcc.
>> If I understand patch correctly, I could then use:
>>  AC_APPEND_CFLAG_IFVALID([-Wextra])
>> It will then add "-Wextra"... but only if the compiler *accepts* that
>flag.
>> 
>> BTW, I recently got a patch from someone on a project that
>> force-added "-Wall" to configure.ac. Dale Visser's addition to
>autoconf is way better,
>> because it doesn't presume that "all the world is gcc".
>> 
>> --- David A. Wheeler
>> 
>                                         

--- David A.Wheeler

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