apologies all around ...
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 01:33:22 +0100 Alexey Veretennikov <alexey.veretenni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > As I see the patch was not really accepted, rather Juergen has redone > the job and introduced more clean option for those like me who would > like still to build GNU APL with old buggy compiler and do not fight > with meaningless warnings. > By default all warnings are errors anyway so those with newer compilers > nothing to worry about. > > It is only for us poor souls with au older compiler on older devices, > we have an option now, instead of fighting with bogus compiler warnings > (I've spent 2 evenings on them, more than enough). > > enz...@gmx.com writes: > > > what ever the reason for his error - the sheer magnitude of the very > > 'version > > specific autoconf 1.15?/automake' patch being accepted - is of concern to me > > it should be kept local to his machine? > > > > > > On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 23:46:19 +0800 > > Elias Mårtenson <loke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Wasn't the problem that he was using an outdated compiler which gave bogus > >> warnings when there actually was no problem? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Elias > >> > >> On 11 March 2017 at 23:05, <enz...@gmx.com> wrote: > >> > >> > you do not want to do this - it just makes code with less confidence in > >> > it > >> > the initialization warnings should be taken care of in the code - so the > >> > are no run time problems > >> > doing it in compiler makes sure you are doing the right types later in > >> > run > >> > time > >> > > >> > > >> > On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:16:32 +0100 > >> > Juergen Sauermann <juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de> wrote: > >> > > >> > > Hi Alexey, > >> > > > >> > > thanks. As of SVN 899 you can now say, for example, > >> > > > >> > > ./configure CXX_WERROR=no > >> > > > >> > > Your patch was also patching generated files created by > >> > autoconf/configure which, > >> > > I believe, only works if the same configuration is being patched.. > >> > > > >> > > /// Jürgen > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > On 03/10/2017 08:09 AM, Alexey Veretennikov wrote: > >> > > Hi Juergen, > >> > > > >> > > Here is the patch which introduces the new configure option: > >> > > --disable-werror > >> > > If this option is set then the -Werror flag is not added to compiler > >> > > options. > >> > > By default it is like it is now - -Werror is present. > >> > > > >> > > With this option I was able to turn off compiler warnings. > >> > > > >> > > I ran autoreconf on my machine but it produces more diffs, which I > >> > > don't > >> > > want to attach. I believe it is better to you to run it on your machine > >> > > and submit to svn instead of me providing them as a patch. > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > > > > -- > Br, > /Alexey
