On 12/15/09, Florian G. Pflug <f...@phlo.org> wrote: > On 15.12.09 16:02 , Tom Lane wrote: > > > "Florian G. Pflug"<f...@phlo.org> writes: > > > > > configure fails to recognize "long" as a working 64-bit type > > > because the does_int64_work configure test produces warning due to > > > a missing return value declaration for main() and a missing > > > prototype for does_int64_work(). (Aain, those warning are turned > > > into errors by -Werror). > > > > > > > autoconf's test programs tend to be sufficiently sloppy that I would > > expect -Werror to break a whole lot of things, not just this. We can > > possibly neaten up the particular test case but there are many tests > > whose expansion we don't have much control over. > > > > Yeah, I expected all hell to break loose - only to be pleasantly > surprised by this being the only issue I encountered. So I figured > fixing this might be worthwhile - even if this surely does not fix > -Werror builds on all platforms and/or compilers. > > Alternatively - is there a way to use -Werror only for building the > actual sources, not the configure tests? I didn't find one, but my > autoconf-fu is pretty limited...
make CC="gcc -Werror"? to make it easier to use we could add --enable-werror switch to configure, which adds the -Werror as a last step in configure, or maybe even in Makefile, so the autoconf tests stay working. -- marko -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
