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Re: Testing for unknown flags in different compilers
From: |
David A. Wheeler |
Subject: |
Re: Testing for unknown flags in different compilers |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 15:58:43 -0500 (EST) |
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 15:51:49 -0500, Dale Visser <address@hidden> wrote:
> My work on this has been on hold for the last week, but I am planning to
> augment the current mechanism for tweaking the flags with a command-line
> option that will be usable to quickly disable the feature without having to
> edit configure.ac. E.g.:
>
> > autoreconf -f -i
> > ./configure --no-default-warnings
>
> I'm still not sure on the exact naming of the option.
Great, I'm looking forward to it.
I think "--no-default-warnings" (and presumably "--default-warnings") is clear
enough.
Since they are *not* gcc-specific, the name "gcc" should not be in the name of
the configure flag.
--- David A. Wheeler