On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes:
>>> These warnings also happen with older versions of clang.  Now idea how
>>> to fix yet.  I'm thinking that clang should be fixed, because these
>>> warnings are stupid.
>
>> Yeah, they're utterly stupid; whoever put them in obviously doesn't
>> have a clue about typical Makefile construction.  I wonder if next
>> we'll see complaints about unnecessary -D or -I switches.
>
>> Having said that, I did look awhile ago about how we might get rid of
>> them, and it seems not easy; for starters we would need to drop the
>> assumption that CFLAGS can always be included when linking.  Also,
>> AFAICT -pthread sometimes *is* required when linking; so it's
>> not even very obvious when to suppress the switch, even if we could
>> do so without wholesale rearrangement of our FLAGS handling.
>
> On the other hand, there's often more than one way to skin a cat.
> It occurred to me that maybe we could just turn off this class of warning,
> and after some experimentation I found out that
> "-Wno-unused-command-line-argument" does that, at least in the version
> of clang that Apple's currently shipping.
>
> Who's for enabling that if the compiler takes it?

Yes, please. I always found those pthread warnings annoying.
-- 
Michael


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