It is not autoconf's responsibility, and I think the testing code in configure should not depend with -Wall and -Wextra, but some software packages may have the configure checking if any warnings are issued /or not. I remember, the configure in pixman had ever checked the warning.
Regards, mpsuzuki Miles Bader wrote: > Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: >> Also, you should generally not add -Wall -Wextra to the configure flags, >> and instead add it after configure completes, since many of the tricks >> configure has to use will result in warnings when you turn on all the >> compiler warnings, which can confuse configure. > > How can that confuse configure? > > AFAICT, configure seems quite unconcerned with warnings during > configuration. > > Thanks, > > -miles > _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
