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Re: Question on AC_CHECK_HEADERS/AC_DEFINE interaction
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Question on AC_CHECK_HEADERS/AC_DEFINE interaction |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:29:45 -0700 |
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> At line 40 we AC_DEFINE(HAVE_SELINUX_SELINUX_H,0)
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=m4/selinux-selinux-h.m4;h=fd09b299;hb=HEAD#l40
> However that may already defined to 1 which is the case
> when compiling in -m32 mode but with only the first of these installed:
>
> $ rpm -qf /usr/include/selinux/selinux.h
> libselinux-devel-2.3-9.fc22.x86_64
> libselinux-devel-2.3-9.fc22.i686
>
> In that edge case, -Werror will fail due to the redefinition,
> thus causing -Werror to not be used in the build.
>
> Quite the edge case I know, but I'm not sure how best to avoid.
> Perhaps we should not use AC_CHECK_HEADERS here,
> instead going lower level with AC_PREPROC_IFELSE(.. AC_DEFINE ..) ?
If you can find a clean way to avoid it, go ahead.
However, isn't it easy just to refrain from using -Werror when running
./configure?