Re: Testing for unknown flags in different compilers

[David A. Wheeler]

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