tags 7669 patch thanks On Sunday 19 December 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 07:52:29PM CET: > > With automake >= 1.10, foreign *after* -Wall in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE turns > > off portability warnings. > > > While the current behaviour is due to various historical and implementation > > reasons, IMHO it is counter-intuitive and somewhat "dangerous", since > > programmers enabling the `foreign' option might unwittingly be prevented > > from seeing portability warnings -- when they think to have enabled those > > warnings! > Now I've posted a patch series about this; see: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-12/msg00139.html>
> Fixing this will turn (at least user-provided) silent-rules rules noisy, > I think. > Luckily no: the pre-existing code was already smart enough that I managed to avoid this problem with no efforts. I added a testcase about it, BTW. > Given however that the nested variable expansion involved may > be in a future Posix (if I get to analyzing the remaining questions from > Eric in time), one possible strategy out is optimistically not warning > about them any more and otherwise letting me get to the testing ... ;-) > This won't be necessary (but having nested variable expansion in POSIX would be great anyway!) Regards, Stefano
