On Thursday 31 August 2006 05:00, Alex Merry wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:40:16AM -0400, Robert Connolly wrote: > > To start, an --enable-werror macro could be added to the autoconf package > > so its available to every package when they're reconfigured. Its a simple > > matter of copying the macro to m4/ and including it in aclocal.m4 for > > submition to package maintainers. The Autoconf macro archive at > > http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/ has lots good examples. After > > that, go one package at a time fixing warnings and fixing existing > > unsuitable patches. Unfortunately this will break HLFS even more than it > > is already, and put the first stable release even further in the future, > > however it will make the first stable release better. > > Do you mean you want to submit such a macro upstream to autoconf?
Yesterday I thought it would be better to add the macro's to autoconf's defaults, but now I don't think its a good idea because the companion patches for packages would not work on their own. No one else would use package patches that depend on a patched autoconf. robert
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