Hello Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:06:30PM CEST: > Currently, automake *force* the disabling of `-Wportability' when > in "foreign" mode. What is the rationale for this?
Please search the archives. The git log takes me to Release-1-9-236-g0ea21f8, which takes me to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-03/msg00001.html The point is that users complained a lot about seeing warnings to add AM_PROG_CC_C_O when they never cared about that odd 15-year old compiler, or about MSVC support. Let's not go back there. I agree that it is wrong to let '-Wportability foreign' not produce portability warnings (esp. since the option parsing order between command-line, options in configure.ac, and options in Makefile.am makes overriding hard), but I think the right fix for that would be to remember whether we defaulted the '-Wportability' setting or whether it came from an explicit setting. Thanks, Ralf
