Re: [Bug-apl] Fwd: Re: Bogus compiler warnings

[enztec]

apologies all around ... 


On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 01:33:22 +0100
Alexey Veretennikov <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> As I see the patch was not really accepted, rather Juergen has redone
> the job and introduced more clean option for those like me who would
> like still to build GNU APL with old buggy compiler and do not fight
> with meaningless warnings.
> By default all warnings are errors anyway so those with newer compilers
> nothing to worry about.
> 
> It is only for us poor souls with au older compiler on older devices,
> we have an option now, instead of fighting with bogus compiler warnings
> (I've spent 2 evenings on them, more than enough).
> 
> address@hidden writes:
> 
> > what ever the reason for his error - the sheer magnitude of the very 
> > 'version
> > specific autoconf 1.15?/automake' patch being accepted - is of concern to me
> > it should be kept local to his machine?
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 23:46:19 +0800
> > Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Wasn't the problem that he was using an outdated compiler which gave bogus
> >> warnings when there actually was no problem?
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Elias
> >> 
> >> On 11 March 2017 at 23:05, <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > you do not want to do this - it just makes code with less confidence in 
> >> > it
> >> > the initialization warnings should be taken care of in the code - so the
> >> > are no run time problems
> >> > doing it in compiler makes sure you are doing the right types later in 
> >> > run
> >> > time
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:16:32 +0100
> >> > Juergen Sauermann <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Hi Alexey,
> >> > >
> >> > > thanks. As of SVN 899 you can now say, for example,
> >> > >
> >> > > ./configure CXX_WERROR=no
> >> > >
> >> > > Your patch was also patching generated files created by
> >> > autoconf/configure which,
> >> > > I believe, only works if the same configuration is being patched..
> >> > >
> >> > > /// Jürgen
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > On 03/10/2017 08:09 AM, Alexey Veretennikov wrote:
> >> > > Hi Juergen,
> >> > >
> >> > > Here is the patch which introduces the new configure option:
> >> > > --disable-werror
> >> > > If this option is set then the -Werror flag is not added to compiler
> >> > > options.
> >> > > By default it is like it is now - -Werror is present.
> >> > >
> >> > > With this option I was able to turn off compiler warnings.
> >> > >
> >> > > I ran autoreconf on my machine but it produces more diffs, which I 
> >> > > don't
> >> > > want to attach. I believe it is better to you to run it on your machine
> >> > > and submit to svn instead of me providing them as a patch.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> Br,
> /Alexey