From: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
To: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>,
Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org>
Cc: autoconf@gnu.org, c-std-porting@lists.linux.dev,
GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How can Autoconf help with the transition to stricter compilation defaults?
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 03:08:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A2553B2B-7C44-4D8B-A8DE-7473DDE3D25E@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d785b19371e8419f5a5817d7cdb429db91614a3a.camel@orlitzky.com>
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> On 10 Nov 2022, at 21:10, Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 12:16 -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>
>> Nobody has a whole lot of time to work on Autoconf at present, but I
>> would like to ask, anyway, what Autoconf could potentially do to make
>> this transition easier.
>
> While everyone else is discussing big ideas, it would be helpful for me
> personally if autoconf just made a release with the latest bugfixes.
>
> I report these compatibility issues upstream, and it's awkward to have
> to tell the maintainers that they must cherry-pick a git commit,
> rebuild autoconf, and then autoreconf their project before they can
> even even think about exporting CFLAGS="-Werror=..." to build-test
> their project.
>
>
Before I dive into the rest of this thread: yes, this is one of
my main thoughts on the matter. Autoconf has a huge network
effect problem and letting the existing fixes start to propagate
would be most helpful.
Like it or not (and I don't like it), various software tries
to jam in -Werror (and sometimes -pedantic-errors, see rsync!) to their
configure scripts which means even prototype issues end up
causing problems.
Note that in autoconf git, we've also got https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=f6657256a37da44c987c04bf9cd75575dfca3b60
which is going to affect time_t efforts too, but that's
for another thread on libc-alpha at some point
when I want to bring up some issues.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-11 3:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-10 17:16 Zack Weinberg
2022-11-10 17:52 ` Nick Bowler
2022-11-10 17:58 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-11-10 18:12 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-11-10 18:44 ` Aaron Ballman
2022-11-12 2:56 ` Zack Weinberg
2022-11-10 18:05 ` Rich Felker
2022-11-10 21:44 ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-12 3:22 ` Zack Weinberg
2022-11-10 18:08 ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-12 3:40 ` Zack Weinberg
2022-11-12 3:43 ` Sam James
2022-11-12 14:27 ` Zack Weinberg
2022-11-12 3:45 ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-12 15:59 ` Wookey
2022-11-12 16:12 ` Zack Weinberg
2022-11-10 18:19 ` Aaron Ballman
2022-11-10 21:05 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-11 15:11 ` Aaron Ballman
2022-11-13 0:43 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-14 12:41 ` Aaron Ballman
2022-11-14 18:14 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-14 18:30 ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-14 18:35 ` Aaron Ballman
2022-11-15 14:50 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-11-15 19:08 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-15 19:27 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-11-15 20:27 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-15 20:57 ` Aaron Ballman
2022-11-15 23:09 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-15 23:43 ` Ben Boeckel
2022-11-16 14:26 ` Michael Matz
2022-11-16 14:40 ` Alexander Monakov
2022-11-16 15:01 ` Michael Matz
2022-11-16 15:27 ` Richard Biener
2022-11-16 15:35 ` Sam James
2022-11-16 15:59 ` Michael Matz
2022-11-16 16:20 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-11-16 16:34 ` Michael Matz
2022-11-16 16:46 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-11-16 18:17 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-16 18:40 ` Jeffrey Walton
2022-11-17 18:45 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-16 18:59 ` Zack Weinberg
2022-11-17 18:58 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-17 21:35 ` Bruno Haible
2022-11-17 22:27 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-17 13:30 ` Michael Matz
2022-11-15 20:36 ` Aaron Ballman
2022-11-15 5:03 ` Sam James
2022-11-15 13:30 ` Zack Weinberg
2022-11-15 13:34 ` Sam James
2022-11-16 0:08 ` Bob Friesenhahn
2022-11-13 0:43 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-17 13:57 ` Jason Merrill
2022-11-10 20:19 ` Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <d785b19371e8419f5a5817d7cdb429db91614a3a.camel@orlitzky.com>
2022-11-11 3:08 ` Sam James [this message]
2022-11-11 3:33 ` Zack Weinberg
2022-11-11 8:40 ` Sam James
2022-11-11 9:02 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-12 14:09 ` Zack Weinberg
2022-11-11 23:25 ` Sam James
2022-11-12 0:53 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-12 4:00 ` Sam James
2022-11-11 9:15 ` Sam James
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