Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Don't run configure tests with -Werror enabled

[Alexander Graf]

On 17.07.2012, at 21:24, Peter Maydell wrote:

> Don't run configure tests with -Werror in the compiler flags. The idea
> of -Werror is that it makes problems very obvious to developers, so
> they get fixed quickly. However, when running configure tests, failures
> due to -Werror are far from obvious -- they simply result in the test
> quietly failing when it should have passed. Not using -Werror is in
> line with recommended practice in the Autoconf world.
> 
> This commit is essentially backing out the changes in commit 417c9d72.
> Instead we fix the problem that commit was trying to address in a
> different way: we add -Werror only for the test of the nss headers,
> with a comment that this is specifically intended to detect a bug
> in some releases of nss.
> 
> We also have to clean up a bug in the smartcard test where it was
> trying to include smartcard_cflags in the test compile flags: this
> would always result in a failure with -Werror, because they include
> an escaped "$(SRC_PATH)" which is only valid when used in the final
> makefile.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>

Works for me. I merely tried to get the default configure cycle to compile for 
me :). This patch has the same net effect to me.


Alex

> ---
> Yeah, this is kind of breaking the "never say 'also' in a commit
> message" rule :-)
> 
> configure |   22 ++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 0a3896e..383fa3d 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -1156,9 +1156,10 @@ gcc_flags="-Wold-style-declaration 
> -Wold-style-definition -Wtype-limits"
> gcc_flags="-Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k -Winit-self -Wignored-qualifiers 
> $gcc_flags"
> gcc_flags="-Wmissing-include-dirs -Wempty-body -Wnested-externs $gcc_flags"
> gcc_flags="-fstack-protector-all -Wendif-labels $gcc_flags"
> -if test "$werror" = "yes" ; then
> -    gcc_flags="-Werror $gcc_flags"
> -fi
> +# Note that we do not add -Werror to gcc_flags here, because that would
> +# enable it for all configure tests. If a configure test failed due
> +# to -Werror this would just silently disable some features,
> +# so it's too error prone.
> cat > $TMPC << EOF
> int main(void) { return 0; }
> EOF
> @@ -2656,8 +2657,16 @@ EOF
>         smartcard_cflags="-I\$(SRC_PATH)/libcacard"
>         libcacard_libs="$($pkg_config --libs nss 2>/dev/null) $glib_libs"
>         libcacard_cflags="$($pkg_config --cflags nss 2>/dev/null) 
> $glib_cflags"
> +        test_cflags="$libcacard_cflags"
> +        # The header files in nss < 3.13.3 have a bug which causes them to
> +        # emit a warning. If we're going to compile QEMU with -Werror, then
> +        # test that the headers don't have this bug. Otherwise we would pass
> +        # the configure test but fail to compile QEMU later.
> +        if test "$werror" = "yes"; then
> +            test_cflags="-Werror $test_cflags"
> +        fi
>         if $pkg_config --atleast-version=3.12.8 nss >/dev/null 2>&1 && \
> -          compile_prog "$smartcard_cflags $libcacard_cflags" 
> "$libcacard_libs"; then
> +          compile_prog "$test_cflags" "$libcacard_libs"; then
>             smartcard_nss="yes"
>             QEMU_CFLAGS="$QEMU_CFLAGS $smartcard_cflags $libcacard_cflags"
>             libs_softmmu="$libcacard_libs $libs_softmmu"
> @@ -2903,6 +2912,11 @@ if test -z "$zero_malloc" ; then
>     fi
> fi
> 
> +# Now we've finished running tests it's OK to add -Werror to the compiler 
> flags
> +if test "$werror" = "yes"; then
> +    QEMU_CFLAGS="-Werror $QEMU_CFLAGS"
> +fi
> +
> if test "$solaris" = "no" ; then
>     if $ld --version 2>/dev/null | grep "GNU ld" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null ; then
>         LDFLAGS="-Wl,--warn-common $LDFLAGS"
> -- 
> 1.7.5.4
>