Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 2.6] configure: Allow builds -Weverything

[Peter Maydell]

On 28 April 2016 at 22:33, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> The clang compiler supports a useful compiler option -Weverything.
>
> As this option triggers warnings in glib header files, too, testing
> glib with -Werror will always fail. A size mismatch is also detected
> without -Werror, so simply remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <address@hidden>
> ---
>
> With this patch, it is possible to build QEMU using this configuration:
>
> ./configure' --cc=clang-3.7 --cxx=clang++-3.7 --extra-cflags="-Weverything 
> -DHAVE_FSXATTR" --disable-werror
>
> (HAVE_FSXATTR avoids a fatal build error because of structure redefinition)

No objection to the patch, but not for 2.6 at this stage I think.

(Does the configure patch re fsxattr that got a ping today
avoid your need to define HAVE_FSXATTR by hand?)

thanks
-- PMM