On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 2:38 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> I wonder if we ought to make configure warn if it sees -Werror in CFLAGS -
> this is far from the first time somebody stumbling with -Werror. Including a
> few quite senior hackers, if I recall correctly. We could also just filter it
> temporarily and put it back at the end of configure.
I think I made this mistake at some point, but I just looked at
config.log and corrected my mistake. I'm not strongly against having
an explicit check for -Werror, but I think the main problem here is
that the original poster didn't have a look at config.log to see what
the actual problem was, and at least IME that's necessary in pretty
much 100% of cases where configure fails for whatever reason. Perhaps
autotools could be better-designed in that regard, but we don't
necessarily want to work around every problem that can stem from that
design choice in our code, either.
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Robert Haas
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